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Microbiology - Chapter 1: Microbiology - The Science That Studies Very Small Living
Microbiology - Chapter 1: Microbiology - The Science That Studies Very Small Living
Bacteria
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Fungi
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Protozoans
Giardia Amoeba
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Viruses
Bacteriophage Avian Flu
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Helminth
Tapeworm Ascaris round worm
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Various disciplines of study within
microbiology:
Bacteriology, Mycology, Parisitology,
Immunology,
Epidemiology,
Biotechnology
Virology
Environmental Microbiology
Bioremediation
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Historical review of the Science of
Microbiology
Robert Hook – 1665 – Englishman, used a
primitive compound (two magnifying lenses)
microscope, reported that life’s smallest
units were little boxes – Cells, his work
started the process of the development of
the Cell theory of life
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Hook’s microscope
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek –1673 -
probably the first person to observe living
cells with a simple microscope, amateur
scientist, ground his own lenses and
described what we know today as bacteria –
rod shaped , spiral shaped , etc.
“animalcules”
Microbiology – Chapter 1
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
Microbiology – Chapter 1