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(microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system
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A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.(microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central ne…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushroo…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.any organism of microscopic size
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious di…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replic…
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication
Used in the same subject area: Microbiology, Biology.(virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)
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RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.a particle that has the same mass as another particle but has opposite values for its other properties; interaction of a particle and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.the outer covering of protein surrounding the nucleic acid of a virus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, wheth…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.A large molecule, such as a protein or nucleic acid
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microbiology, infectious, protein, particle, similar.the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein…
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