Industrial Microbiology and Fermentation Technology Industrial Microbiology is the discipline that uses microorganisms, usually grown on a large scale, to produce valuable commercial products or carry out important chemical transformations. Fermentation Technology is the technology to grow cells in large scale with high efficiency, it also includes product recovery processes
Chapter 5 Macromolecules and Molecular Genetics The key informational macromolecules in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells are DNA, RNA, and protein. Molecular Genetics deals with the mechanisms by which the information in DNA is replicated, and by which it can be transcribed into rNa and translated into specific proteins
Questions for microbial ecology 1. What is Microbial Ecology and What do microbial ecologists study? 2. What is a microevironment? 3. Describe biofilms and their functions and significance in practical applications 4. What are the factors affecting microbial ecology? 5. List methods commonly used to study microbial ecology