Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

Environmental Microbiology & Biology

Environmental Microbiology is the ecology of microorganisms  their relationship with one another and with their environment. It concerns the three major domains of life—Eukaryota, Archaea, and Bacteria—as well as viruses. Microorganisms, by their omnipresence, impact the entire biosphere. Microbial life plays a primary role in regulating biogeochemical systems in virtually all of our planet's environments, including some of the most extreme, from frozen Environmental microbiology is difficult for many engineering students because the amount of information presented in the textbook is large and most of the concepts are not directly linked to each other.Further  more, biology studies about all types of living organisms on earth and their interactions with non-living things while microbiology studies about microorganisms. Hence, this is another difference between biology and microbiology.