PLAN FOR ICAR - ASRB NET EXAM PREPARATION IN 40 DAYS (MICROBIOLOGY/ AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY) DAY DATE TOPICS FOR PREPARATION 1 18.03.23 Spontaneous generation theory; Contributions of Francesco Redi; John Needham; Lazaro Spallanzani; Louis Pasteur; Robert Hooke; Antony Van Leeuwenhoek; Ferdinand Cohn; Edward Buchner, Robert Koch, Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, Paul Ehrlich, Martinus Beijerinck, Sergi Winogradsky, Alexander Fleming and Selman Waksman; Golden age of Microbiology 2 19.03.23 Evolution of Microbial life - Phylogenetic Hierarchy; Nomenclature of Microorganisms; Taxonomy and Taxonomic Hierarchy; Numerical Taxonomy; Kingdom concept of Organisms classification – Lennaeus Two Kingdom concept, Haeckel Three Kingdom concept, Copeland’s Four Kingdom concept, Whittaker’s Five Kingdom concept, Grey & Doolittle’s Six Kingdom concept and Cavalier-Smith’s Eight K...