GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY - KSU
fac.ksu.edu.sa › files › 140_mbio-final_notes1.2. PATHWAYS OF DISCOVERY IN MICROBIOLOGY Like any science, microbiology owes much to its past. Although able to claim early roots, the science of microbiology didn’t really develop until the nineteenth century. Since that time, the field has exploded and spawned several new but related fields. We retrace these pathways of discovery now.