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FERDINAND J. COHN (1828-1898)

Ferdinand Cohn, a German biologist was born in Breslau (now in Poland). Cohn was the first to classify algae (a type of microorganism), and he is also one of the founders of modern microbiology and bacteriology. Ferdinand Cohn successfully distinguished algae from plants, and he also classified bacteria into four (4) different groups in terms […]

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TAXONOMIC GROUPS OF MICROORGANISMS

There are millions of microorganisms in the face of the planet earth, and these organisms are ubiquitously distributed. To make sense of the diversity of microorganisms around us in terms of their types or varieties, it is important to group microbes together according to some similarities and features that exist amongst them. This is the

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