Courtesy : Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Yeast Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently…
Courtesy: Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Eukaryotes Eukaryotic cells contain membrane bound organelles, such as mitochondria, a nucleus, and chloroplasts. Prokaryotic cells probably transitioned into eukaryotic cells between 2.0 and…
Courtesy: Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Prokaryotes Prokaryotes lack membrane-bound organelles, such as mitochondria or a nucleus. Instead, most prokaryotes have an irregular region that contains DNA, known as the nucleoid. Most prokaryotes have a…
Courtesy : Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of a single cell, unlike a multicellular organism that consists of multiple cells. Organisms fall…
Courtesy : Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) The birth of bacteriology The field of bacteriology (later a subdiscipline of microbiology) was founded in the 19th century by Ferdinand Cohn, a botanist whose…
Courtesy :Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Medicine In medicine, diagnoses can be made with the assistance of microscopic observation of patient biopsies, such as cancer cells. Pathology and cytology reports include a microscopic description, which…
Courtesy : Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Electron microscopes While electron microscopes are still a form of compound microscope, their use of electron beams to illuminate objects varies in mechanism significantly…
Courtesy :Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) The microscopic scale (from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrons) 'small', and σκοπέω (skopéō) 'to look (at); examine, inspect') is the scale of objects and events smaller than those that can easily be seen…
Courtesy : Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Bright field Bright field microscopy is the simplest of all the light microscopy techniques. Sample illumination is via transmitted white light, i.e.…
Courtesy : Master of Science in Microbiology (M.Sc.Microbiology) Microscopy Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are…