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Sampler for airborne bacteria, spores, molds and yeast |
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A volumetric sampler for bacterial and other particles using agar plates |
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A volumetric sampler for bacterial and other particles using glass slides |
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MICROBIOLOGY: The section of biology concerned with organisms which are not visible by the naked eye. The study of microorganisms, or microbiology began when the first microscopes were developed in the 1600's. In 1665 the English Scientist, Robert Hooke constructed a simple microscope and published a book with many illustrations of a previously unseen world of biological materials. His drawings of the honeycomb structure of cork, in which he named the compartments as "cells", resulted in the use of the word "Cell Biology". Hooke also observed fungi and protozoa, i.e. microorganisms. Greater advances were made by the Dutch merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1674 with a microscope which observed minute forms of life in droplets of pond, rain, and sea water.
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