Essentials of Microbiology

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.