Most microbes are unicellular and small enough that they require artificial magnification to be seen.…

Viruses are the smallest of all the microbes. They are said to be so small…

Bacteria reproduce by binary fission. In this process the bacterium, which is a single cell,…

Bacteria are single celled microbes. The cell structure is simpler than that of other organisms…

Flagella are too thin to be visualized using a bright field microscope with ordinary stains,…

Capsule stain is a type of differential stain which uses acidic and basic dyes to…

An acid-fast stain is a laboratory test performed on a sample of bloodsputum, or phlegmurinestoolbone…

Gram Staining is the common, important, and most used differential staining techniques in microbiology, which…

Microscopes come in a variety of sizes, each with its specific suitability. The most common…

The number of species of bacteria and archaea is surprisingly small, despite their early evolution,…