Subsections
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- Microbial Life and the Biosphere: Fossil evidence of microorganisms. Microbial life as
the foundation of biosphere. Importance of microbiology in Astrobiology.
- The History, Scope, and Future of Microbiology.
- Microscopic techniques to study microbes.
- Nutrition, Cultivation and Isolation of Microorganisms.
- Basic Virology: Origin of viruses. General properties, structure, reproduction,
cultivation, and purification of viruses. Bacterial and Eukaryotic viruses.
- Microbial Ecology: Microbial communities. Biogeochemical cycles. Beneficial
symbiotic associations. Human host-microbe interaction.
- Role of microbes in human health, industry and environment :
- Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Diseases of Humans.
- Microbes involved in industrial processes.
- Major industrial products from microbes.
- Microbes in wastewater treatment and bioremediation.
- Willey, Sherwood, and Woolverton, Prescott, Harley and
KleinsMicrobiology, (Seventh Edition), McGraw-Hill International Edition (2008).
- Staley, Gunsalus, Lory, and Perry, Microbial Life,
(Second Edition), Sinauer Associates (2007).
