Microbiology

Microbiology

The study of microscopic organisms including unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), and acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses a number of sub-disciplines including virology, mycology, parasitology, and bacteriology.

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obligate aerobes

Biology; Microbiology

Organisms that grow only in the presence of oxygen.

period of infectivity

Biology; Microbiology

Refers to the time during which the source of an infectious disease is infectious or is disseminating the pathogen.

phycobiont

Biology; Microbiology

The algal or cyanobacterial partner in a lichen.

mycobiont

Biology; Microbiology

The fungal partner in a lichen.

anamnestic response

Biology; Microbiology

The recall, or the remembering, by the immune system of a prior response to a given antigen.

vector

Biology; Microbiology

1. In genetic engineering, another name for a cloning vector. A DNA molecule that can replicate (a replicon) and is used to transport a piece of inserted foreign DNA, such as a gene, into a recipient ...