Practical Manual of Microbiology is meant for students taking a basic course in Microbiology. The exercises and experiments are carefully designed to provide the student a comprehensive understanding of laboratory methodology in Microbiology. The manual has 13 chapters and covers practically all aspects of laboratory exercises needed for the basic microbiology course of all Indian universities. Chapter One deals with laboratory rules and regulations. Chapter 2 and 3 help the student to familiarize with the construction and working method of some of the important tools and techniques of microbiology. Some of the basic techniques of microbial study such as staining, sterilization, preparation of the culture medium etc. are explained in some detail. Four chapters are devoted to the description of some important eukaryotic as well as prokaryotic microbes. The last two chapters deal with Parasitology.

The manual is written in a manner and style to make the understanding of the subject easy. Experiments are explained in a stepwise manner to help the students understand and perform the experiments without much difficulty. It is hoped that this laboratory manual will serve the needs of both students and teachers.

The living world is most fascinating to any observer due to its wide diversity. While the manifest (micro) has attracted the attention of man even before the invention of the microscope, the unmanifest (micro) opened up its kaleidoscopic variety to the human eye when they (microbes) became obvious only through the microscope.

Micro organisms provide a bird's eye view of the fascinating microcosm. Starting with the history and invention of the microscope, the book in its 12 chapters provides a general survey of all groups of microbes such as Viruses, Mycoplasma, and Protozoa etc.

The book is meant to be a text book for students of life science, pharmacy, agriculture etc. at the graduate and post graduate level.

Metabolic processes in living organisms in both micro- organisms and higher organisms have been built upon a common foundation from where they (processes) have diversified depending on the evolutionary hierarchy.

Microbial Physiology deals with all the metabolic processes in micro-organisms such as growth, culture, bioenergetics, bacterial photosynthesis, respiration etc. The book consists of six chapters and surveys all the parameters of microbial metabolism.

The book is meant to be a text book for students of life science, pharmacy, agriculture etc. at the graduate and post graduate level.

Study of cell known as cell biology is one of the most important branches of biology which has wide ranging impact on many fields of human activity such as medicine, pharmacy, agriculture etc. A living cell can be studied either at the gross structural level or at the molecular level. By the application of new methods and tools like electron microscopy, ultra centrifugation etc., quite a number of sub cellular structures have been discovered and studied in detail-probing further, biologists have analysed the architectural pattern of the molecules that comprise the living matter. This has led to a new branch of biology-the Molecular Biology-a science dealing with the ultra structural organisation of the living matter. Molecular biology attempts to explain the phenomena of metabolism, variation, mutation etc., in terms of changes of macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids etc.

The present book titled Cell and Molecular Biology deals with both gross and molecular structure of cell in all its structural and functional manifestations. The book consists of twenty seven chapters surveying all aspects of structural and molecular configurations of the cell. There are also chapters on genetic engineering and immunology as the understanding of these is very vital for comprehending the expressions of cell machinery. The book is meant to be a text book for students of life science, pharmacy, agriculture etc. at the graduate and post graduate level.