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Microbiology
• Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, either unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells).Microbiology includes the disciplines virology, mycology, parasitological, bacteriology.
• Eukaryotic microorganisms exhibit cell organelles and include fungi and protists, whereas prokaryotic organisms—which all are microorganisms—are conventionally classified as lacking organelles and include eubacteria and archaebacteria. Microbiologists traditionally relied on culture, staining, and microscopy.
• Microbiologists often rely on extraction or detection of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA sequences.
• As an application of microbiology, medical microbiology is often introduced with medical principles of immunology as microbiology and immunology. Otherwise, microbiology, virology, and immunology as basic sciences have greatly exceeded the medical variants, applied sciences.
Pure microbiology
Taxonomic arrangement [edit]
• Bacteriology: The study of bacteria.
• Mycology: The study of fungi.
• Protozoology: The study of protozoa.
• Phycology (or algology): The study of algae.
• Parasitological: The study of parasites.
• Immunology: The study of the immune system.
• Virology: The study of viruses.
• Nematology:The study of the nematodes
• Microbiology: The study of microbes.
Integrative arrangement [edit]
• Microbial cytology: The study of microscopic and submicroscopic details of microorganisms.
• Microbial physiology: The study of how the microbial cell functions biochemically. Includes the study of microbial growth, microbial metabolism and microbial cell structure.
• Microbial ecology: The relationship between microorganisms and their environment.
• Microbial genetics: The study of how genes are organized and regulated in microbes in relation to their cellular functions. Closely related to the field of molecular biology.
• Cellular microbiology: A discipline bridging microbiology and cell biology.
• Evolutionary microbiology: The study of the evolution of microbes. This field can be subdivided into:
• Microbial taxonomy: The naming and classification of microorganisms.
• Microbial systematic: The study of the diversity and genetic relationship of microorganisms.
• Generation microbiology: The study of those microorganisms that have the same characters as their parents.
• Systems microbiology: A discipline bridging systems biology and microbiology.
• Molecular microbiology: The study of the molecula