Microbial Physiology, 4th Edition
Microbial Physiology, 4th Edition Books
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The Fourth Edition of Microbial Physiology retains the logical, simple-to-follow organization of the previous editions. An introduction to cell structure and synthesis of cell components is provided, followed by detailed discussions of genetics, metabolism, growth, and regulation for anyone wishing to know the mechanisms underlying cell survival and growth. This comprehensive reference approaches the theme from a modern molecular genetic perspective, incorporating new insights gained from various genome projects.
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This book is downright terrible. I have no thought why my professor assigned this as the main text especially since it is outdated. I read one chapter and I retained none of the in rank. If you do not know the theme material already, the book is of small help because it does not flow very smoothly in the way it presents detail and thus requires you to know what it is talking about so you do not get lost. Unfortunately, this is not the case for me and I may possibly not follow the text at all.
The diagrams are useless! All pictures are in grayscale and are too complex to be monochromatic. The diagrams are very poorly labeled and the captions just prattle on and on about things that aren’t labeled making it very confusing to follow. The pictures are sometimes fuzzy and poorly rendered so one blob is not really distinguishable from the next blob.
DON’T BUY THIS BOOK. BURN IT FOR GOD’S SAKE!!! If this is the assigned text for your class, you better hope the prof is really excellent and doesn’t reference to the text too much. After reading a fantastic Biochemistry book like Lehninger, this one is simply unacceptable.
Albert G. Moat must have contemplated suicide several times after publishing this God-dreadful text.
Rating: 1 / 5
Even as some comment that this is the best text for the field, I answer that the best just isn’t excellent enough.
I have just finished an upper-division undergraduate course entitled Metabolism and Biochemistry of Microorganisms, for which near all chapters of this 700-page text were prescribed. As a fourth year Cell and Molecular Biology major, I have encountered several texts written on the ‘hard’ sciences and I must say, this is – without question – the absolute most terrible text I have come across thus far. No other text comes to mind that even comes close to such poor quality as Microbial Physiology (4th edition – Moat/Foster/Spector).
First, and most significantly, the chapters are LACED WITH ERRORS! My professor for the course is an extremely knowledgeable microbiologist, and he pointed out several errors each week in address. Some errors are blatant, others more obscure, but the editors of this text owe it another go (or two, or three).
Second, the text is poorly written. One sentence and the next often have nothing in common, paragraphs don’t use introductory or conclusion sentences, and sentences are very blunt and seldom elaborate for clarity. This is a fourth edition, but it reads like a (very rough) first draft.
The often captionless figures and tables are sparse, confusing, and look as though they were drafted with early editions of MS Word – generally next to useless. I suggest a flip through the pages before making a buy – you’ll see what I mean. Additionally, images are of low resolution and sparse as well. Not a spot of color can be found in this text, save the paperback cover.
Final thoughts: The content might be here (when right), but the presentation renders it more of a chore than a tool. If this really is the definitive text on Microbial Physiology, you’d probably be better off combining two or more correlated texts that are of higher caliber. Or, just question the PI down the hall.
This goes without saying, but this text held a temporary place in my library. For these efforts, I award Microbial Physiology with the Toilet Bowl Award.
Rating: 1 / 5