Microbial Pathogenesis & Infectious Diseases

Microbial genomics

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Genetics is the science of heredity and genetic information in a cell. Genetic information pasess from cell to cell as well as from genereation to generation.Genetic information is stored in the form of either DNA or RNA in all the lining organisms. Microbial genetics is the study of genome or the genetic material of microorganisms. Most of the bacteria and viruses have RNA as the genetic material. Retroviruses are the viruses with DNA as genetic material and caused AIDS in humans. Microbial genetics plays a crucial role in field of molecular and cell biology and profound applications in medicine, food, agriculture and pharmaceutical industries. It also involves the transmission of hereditary characters in microbes.