Microbiology

by Donald A. Klein, Prescott, John P. Harley, et al.

Book Overview

Prescott, Harley and Klein's 5th edition provides a balanced, comprehensive introduction to all major areas of microbiology. Because of this balance, Microbiology, 5/e is appropriate for students... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071228349
• ISBN13: 9780071228343
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bought it for class

I bought this for a micro class, and it was helpful. Easy to use with lots of pictures. I'm surely not a great judge of micro books, but this one was helpful for me.

really detailed book

I was assigned this book in college. It is definitely intense. However, it's intense in a positive way. I have always found microbiology to be one of the most interesting subjects of science. I have always been fascinated by parasites and bacteria. If you're assigned this book in micro class in college--definitely read this book. I also found Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi to be an excellent study guide for test prep.

Too much info

Extremely detailed, this book covers much more than MICROBIOLOGY. You can find a complete course of GENETICS within it as an example!This is a usefull book for undergrad's but there is no chance of being able to finish all of it in an undergraduate course in MICRO.It just covers everything and tries to squees all the info within its pages...I hope you will have fun studying it though...

Nicely done.

This book is nicely done, all together. The flow of information is well organized, with great cross-references and detailed graphs and pictures to help understand important concepts. Also, several appendices, a glossary, and a CD-ROM serve as helpful resources. The material is presented in a tasteful manner, not reducing the book to a mere picture book. This book, written for undergraduate and graduate students, gives serious information and is very detailed. It's the whole package!