Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology & Microbial Biogeochemistry

Applications of Microbial Genetics

Microbes are preferably suited for biochemical and genetics studies and have made huge contributions to these fields of science such as the demonstration that DNA is the genetic material that the gene has a simple linear structure, that the genetic code is a triplet code and that gene expression is regulated by specific genetic processes.J acques Monod and François Jacob used Escherichia coli, a type of bacteria, in order to develop the operon model of gene expression, which lay down the basis of gene expression and regulation.