an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
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free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
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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.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)
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The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spon…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of ener…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- op…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: free-living, colonial, organisms, diverse, nutritional.
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