Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism or infectious agent of microscopic or submicroscopic size, especially a bacterium or protozoan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A microscopic organism, as a bacillus, bacterium, or vibrio; a microbe; a microzoary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Any microscopic form of life; a form of life too small to be seen by the naked eye; -- particularly applied to bacteria, protozoa, yeasts, and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
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- noun microbiology An
organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye, especially a single-celled organism, such as abacterium .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any organism of microscopic size
- noun any organism of microscopic size
Etymologies
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Examples
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"This study gives a systems biology view of how a phenotype, or a 'network state' advantageous to a microorganism is comprised of a tiny subset of a much larger universe of possibilities as provided for in the genome," said Palsson.
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The single cell of a microorganism is a perfect protein factory.
Chapter 7 1983
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"It exchanges a functional definition of a pathogen -- that is, a microorganism that can do harm -- for a very complicated approach that says: 'Maybe it's a pathogen and maybe it's not, and there are infinite numbers of possibilities'."
Scientific American 2010
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After they got interested in that microorganism, they prepared several canned meats, and checked the radioactivity: The meats were still rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans.
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After it was turned on, the Robot Scientist made a few discoveries on the genomics of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae microorganism, which is widely used by experts to model more complex creatures.
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After they got interestedi n that [[microorganism]], they prepared several canned meats, and checked the radioactivity stillr otting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans.
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After they got interested in that microorganism, they prepared several canned meats, and checked the radioactivity: The meats were still rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans.
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After they got interesting in that [[microorganism]], they prepared several canned [[| meat | meats]], and checked the radioactivity, still the meats were rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans today.
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After they got interesting in that [[microorganism]], they prepared several canned [[| meat | meats]], and checked the radioactivity, still the meats were rotting, and all of other microbes were completely destroyed, except one microorganism, which is known as deinococcus radiodurans today.
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Firstly, you decide whether your microorganism will be a carnivore or a herbivore.
Blogger Buster 2008
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