Meaning | The branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans. |
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Category of | bacteria, bacterium | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission |
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colony | (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell |
fastidious, exacting | Having complicated nutritional requirements |
prion | (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid |
unfastidious | not exacting in nutritional requirements |
virino | (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system |
Broader | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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Spanish | microbiología |
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Catalan | microbiologia |
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Nouns | microbiologist | a specialist in microbiology |
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