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Vitamin requirements of microorganisms
81, 88t
Vitamin B2 see: riboflavin
Vitamin B3 see: niacin
Vitamin B6 see: pyridoxine
Vmax see: enzyme kinetics
Voges Proskauer test 175t, 176t
Volvox 219
VRSA (vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus) 365
Waksman, S 356
Warts 260t
Washing powder 416
Wastewater treatment 399–401
Water 24
Water moulds see: Oomycota
Waterborne transmission of disease
193–4
Watson, J 40, 43, 271
Weismann, C 414
Whey see: cheese production
White rot 402
Whittaker, R 158–60
Whooping cough 8t, 192t
Wine 413t
Wine production 408–9
Wobble hypothesis 280–2
Woese, C 164
Woodruff, A 257
Wort see: beer production
X-rays 295, 297
Xanthophyll 213t, 215–16
YAC see: yeast artificial chromosome
Yeast 198, 204, 407–11 see also: Candida;
Saccharomyces
Yeast artificial chromosome 329–30
Yeast centromere plasmid 329t
Yeast episomal plasmid 329t
Yeast extract 87, 88t
Yeast integrative plasmid 329t
Yeast replicative plasmid 329t
Yellow fever 8t, 238t, 260t
Yellow fever virus 260t
Yersinia 174
Yersinia pestis 8t, 194–5
YM shift 198
Yoghurt production 412
Z value 348
Zanamivir 371
Zinc 80t
Zinder, N 309
Zooflagellate see: Mastigophora
Zoogloea 401
Zoonosis 262
Zoospore 218–22
Zooxanthella 215
Zygomycota 199–202
Zygospore 200–2, 219
Zygote 217, 219–23