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A microorganism—in the widest sense, such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus—that causes disease in its host. The host may be an animal (including humans), a plant, or even another ...
The final straight portion of the large intestine in some mammals, and the gut in others.
The biological process by which new "offspring" individual organisms are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life; each individual organism exists as the ...
A parasite is an organism that has sustained contact with another organism to the detriment of the host organism.
A mutation is a change in the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal genetic element.
An acute disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.