an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
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A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
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an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, 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: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, 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: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, 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: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, 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: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, Nature and environment, Animals.the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, 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: Medicine and healthcare, Microbiology, Biology, Infectious disease, 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…
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A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological indivi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, motile, bacteria, characterized, short.
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