PLAN FOR ICAR - ASRB NET EXAM PREPARATION (AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY) IN 100 DAYS (01.05.2025 to 08.08.2025)
DAY DATE TOPICS FOR PREPARATION 1 01.05.25 Spontaneous generation theory; Contributions of Francesco Redi; John Needham; Lazaro Spallanzani; Louis Pasteur; Robert Hooke; Antony Van Leeuwenhoek; Ferdinand Cohn; Edward Buchner. 2 02.05.25 Robert Koch, Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, Paul Ehrlich, Martinus Beijerinck, Sergi Winogradsky, Alexander Fleming and Selman Waksman; Golden age of Microbiology. 3 03.05.25 Evolution of Microbial life - Phylogenetic Hierarchy; Nomenclature of Microorganisms; Taxonomy and Taxonomic Hierarchy; Numerical Taxonomy; Molecular Taxonomy. 4 04.05.25 Kingdom concept of Organisms classification – Linnaeus Two Kingdom concept, Haeckel Three Kingdom concept, Copeland’s Four Kingdom concept, Whittaker’s Five Kingdom concept, Grey & Doolittle’s Six Kingdom c...