Advances in microbiology ======================== Microbiology is the study of microbes and their interactions with humans, animals, plants, and the environment. Microbes are those organisms usually too small to be seen by the naked eye, such as bacteria, viruses and archaea, and eukaryotes like yeast, protozoa and algae. Microbes (or microorganisms) are organisms that are too small to be seen by the unaided eye. They include bacteria, fungi, protozoa, microalgae, and viruses. Industrial microbiology is an area of applied microbiology which deals with screening, improvement , management,and exploitation of microorganisms for the production of various useful end products on a large scale.It is an applied field of biology.