What is a working definition of a “protist”?

Q: What are the different Pre-zygotic and Post-Zygotic Reproductive Barriers?

A: Acvording to our guideline we can answer only the first question with three subparts. You hava…

Q: What is meant by term Allelomorphs?

A: Two British geneticists,  William Bateson, and Edith Rebecca Saunders are credited for discovering…

Q: Which protist groups include species that use pseudopods?

A: Pseudopodia are membrane protrusions that help in the movement and locomotion of various species and…

Q: Describe how oxygen is used in aerobic respiration in the ETS. What are the metabolic sources of…

A: ETS, that is, the electron transport system is a step in cellular respiration in which ATP is…

Q: What is the root of the eukaryotic tree?

A: The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) officially represents the origin of eukaryote phylogeny,…

Microbial Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of naming, classifying, and describing organisms. The taxonomy will include all the plants, microorganisms, and animals on this planet. Carl Linnaeus coined the taxonomy term. He is known as the father of taxonomy. Microbial taxonomy is a criterion of grouping microorganisms into groups based on their similarities and past relatedness. Microorganisms belonging to the same group are differentiated from the others via grouping into categories. This differentiation makes the study of microorganisms easy. There are different types of microbial taxonomies like Numerical and Molecular taxonomy. The study of microorganisms is known as microbiology. Microbiology is a broad term that takes into account microbial cultures, taxonomic studies, evolutionary relationships. Microbial interaction and diversity are huge data that needs to be compiled under the subject of microbiology. Microbiology covers various organisms like bacteria, fungi, algae, plants, animals, etc.