# Microbiology --- **Microbiology** is a field of [[biology]] that focus on the of [[microbe|microbes]]. Some—not all, but some!—of these microbes are [[pathogen|pathogenic]], meaning they cause [[disease]]. Thus, it is an essential field of study in [[nursing]]. %%Wait, how do bacteria know what to take into their genomes? Like, they don't have a bunch of redundant genes from transduction or something? How does the bacteria determine if it wants to add the bit of DNA it gets from transduction or transformation? Can CRISPR work on RNA phages? Single stranded phages?%% ___