What are the branches of microbiology?

The branches of microbiology can be classified into pure and applied sciences. Microbiology can be also classified based on taxonomy, in the cases of bacteriology, mycology, protozoology, and phycology. read more

Food microbiology is a important branch as it deals with study of association of micro-organism with food.Micro-organism deal with food in two ways one it can spoil the food and spread the infection or disease.Secondly it can used some substrate and convert into a product that is fermentation. read more

Microbiology (from Greek μῑκρος, mīkros, "small"; βίος, bios, "life"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, parasitology, mycology and bacteriology. read more