an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
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any organism of microscopic size
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an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.any organism of microscopic size
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea
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microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.an organism belonging to the same species as another organism
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organism, microscopic, size.(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism c…
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