2006-11-17 03:42:04 · 3 answers · asked by remya 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
microbiology is a subject with great potential. Micrbes are being used from everything from "eating up oil" to producing human insulin!
Though the subject has just too many applications in oil industry, agriculture, pharmacy, chemical industry, biotech etc. etc. perhaps the best applications would be in the pharmacy sector where microbes are both friends and foes.
On one hand microbes are used for production of many drugs penicillin, chloromycetin, soframycin, human insulin, botox, many protiens, enzymes and hormones. On the ther hand the harmful ones are carefully studied and screened from the drugs manfactured. So a microbiologist has applications in both R&D, Production and Quality Control aspects.
Research is also being done in biotech, where microbes are being modified to produce more nitrogen, provide disease resistence, improve vigour in plants , etc. etc.
But you must do an M.Sc. then Ph.D.
2006-11-17 03:49:23 · answer #1 · answered by raindrops 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now there is a big question regarding bacteria becoming resistant to drugs.
2006-11-17 12:14:24 · answer #2 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be huge.Medicine.
2006-11-17 11:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by Soupy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋