Anupam Rajak

Essentials of Microbiology Anupam Rajak

Welcome to Microbiology. Microbiology is today accepted as a separate subject and is taught all the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in all Universities and Schools in the World. The present book has been written as a course material that can be adopted both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This book is useful to students. At the end of the some chapter has been added references which help the interested reader. The book comprises ten chapters. The first chapter gives an introduction and discovery of the microbial world. The second chapters introduces microbial taxonomy. The third chapters describes the eukaryotic cells organelles locations and its functions. The fourth chapters describes various microscopic tools and techniques. The fifth and sixth chapters describes Bacteria and Archaea respectively. The chaper seventh describes basic idea about conjugation, transformation, transduction, and plasmid. The eight and ninth chapters discusses viruses and mycoplasma respectively. The tenth chapter has a special mention on restriction enzyme, polymerase chain reaction, southern blotting, agarose gel electrophoresis. Thanks to my family. Lastly, thankful to all the friends for their continue support and encouragement. The author invites suggestions from readers for the improvement of text.