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IT will probably be conceded that the terms 'microbiology' and 'biochemistry' can be roughly translated into English as the knowledge of invisible life and as the chemistry of the living cell respectively. As such, these definitions aptly circumscribe the fields of study embraced by the two branches of science. Yet, all too often, the term microbiology is referred to as synonymous with that of biochemistry, as if these two branches of science dealt with identically the same problems, required the same training, and would use the same approach to the solution of their problems. This, however, is not necessarily the case and has no foundation in the basic concept of microbiology.
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THAYSEN, A. Microbiology Its Basic Concept and Its Future. Nature 155, 564–567 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155564a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155564a0