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Eukaryotic Microorganisms
The domain Eukarya contains all eukaryotes, including uni- or multicellular eukaryotes such as protists, fungi, plants, and animals. The major…
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Types of Microorganisms
Most microbes are unicellular and small enough that they require artificial magnification to be seen. However, there are some unicellular…
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VIRUSES
Viruses are the smallest of all the microbes. They are said to be so small that 500 million rhinoviruses (which…
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How do bacteria reproduce?
Bacteria reproduce by binary fission. In this process the bacterium, which is a single cell, divides into two identical daughter…
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Bacteria
Bacteria are single celled microbes. The cell structure is simpler than that of other organisms as there is no nucleus…
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Flagella Stain
Flagella are too thin to be visualized using a bright field microscope with ordinary stains, such as the Gram stain,…
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Capsule Stain
Capsule stain is a type of differential stain which uses acidic and basic dyes to stain background & bacterial cells…
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What Is an Acid-Fast Stain Test?
An acid-fast stain is a laboratory test performed on a sample of blood sputum, or phlegm urine stool bone marrow…
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Gram Staining: Principle, Procedure, Interpretation, Examples and Animation
Gram Staining is the common, important, and most used differential staining techniques in microbiology, which was introduced by Danish Bacteriologist…
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Difference Between Light Microscope and Electron Microscope
Microscopes come in a variety of sizes, each with its specific suitability. The most common categories are the electron microscope…
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The Species Concept in Microbiology
The number of species of bacteria and archaea is surprisingly small, despite their early evolution, genetic, and ecological diversity. Judging…
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Microorganisms Defined
Microorganisms are a collection of organisms that share the characteristic of being visible only with a microscope. They constitute the subject…