Know in one minute about the Bunsen burner The Bunsen burner is a high-temperature heating device. Widely used in laboratories all over the world for its required heat, stability, and smokeless flame. It was discovered in 1857 by Robert Bunsen and his assistant. Used for various purposes, such as heating, sterilization, combustion, etc. Bunsen burner … Read more
Introduction Serial dilution is a microbiological process where a substance is stepwise diluted in a solution. This serial dilution method is a technological method that is used in the isolation of microorganisms. There are two types of dilution. Simple dilution Serial dilution. Below is a discussion of what the serial dilution method is and how … Read more
Know in one minute about prokaryotic DNA The prokaryotic DNA found in the cytoplasm is usually circular and present in fewer amounts. It is naked without histone protein. It exists as single chromosome Apart from that additional plasmid DNA is also present. The compact mass of DNA is called the nucleoid. Non-coding introns absent with … Read more
Introduction Microscopy helps us to understand or gives access to see the direct images of various tissues, organisms, organelles, microorganisms, molecular assemblies, and proteins. It is an important, complementary technique to visualize the macro and/or microscopic structure and to assign structure to function and vice versa. The discovery of an electron microscope was not sudden, … Read more
Introduction A microscope is used to see objects that are not visible to the naked eye. The electron microscope is a breakthrough invention in microbiology. It is of two types based on its structure such as transmission electron microscope and Scanning electron microscope (SEM). This microscope accurately describes the smallest part of an object. After … Read more
Introduction Microorganisms are categorized under bacteria, viruses, fungi, and mycoplasma. Some of the microorganisms are disease-causing some are saprophytes or some are heterotopic in nature. Bacteria are cosmopolitan, unicellular, rigid cell walled, prokaryotic microorganisms. They are simple in structure cause diseases in plants and animals. The following article is about gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and … Read more
Are viruses living or not? is a very question to understand. Virus has attributes of both living organisms and nonliving objects. Thus it can be considered as both living and nonliving Origin of Virus There are two main views on the origin of the virus A. I. Oparin suggested that complex molecules of different organic … Read more
Difference between animal, plant virus, and bacteriophage Viruses are very small even smaller than bacteria and are mainly parasitic in nature. Depending upon the host, they are widely categorized under three different types namely animal, plant viruses, and bacteriophage. Although all of them have basic similarities depending on the host type and genetic material these … Read more
Introduction There is no nomenclature system for virus classification since they are not considered truly living. As we all know that living organisms have a definite cellular structure. That raises an interesting question of what actually viruses are. And what are the types of viruses and their structure? Viruses are named according to the type … Read more
Virus definition In Latin, the word virus means poisonous or venomous fluid coined by Dmitri Ivanowsky (1892). He recognized certain microbes causing mosaic diseases of tobacco are smaller than that of bacteria. These are very very minute submicroscopic biological entities. Thus, definition for viruses is that it does not have any cellular organelles but definitely … Read more
