Microbes and microscopes

a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important…

(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic a…

an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore…

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colo…

a particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization"

(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewe…

items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population

a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain" - The Bible, Genesis 4:15

(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease

a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that…

an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the…

any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division