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micro lesson 2
Microbiology
Question | Answer |
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More about the varying forms in which microorganisms exist | Living thing thatpresently has or has the ability to function in an idependent manner--characterized by voluntary movement--lacking the power of locomotion |
Intestinal flora | Harmless microorganisms (escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential to its normal functioning |
Viruses, Virus | (Virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agents that only replicate within cells of living hosts |
Moneran, Moneron | Organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is one of the following three: absorption, photosynthesis, or chemosynthesis |
Bacteria, Bacterium | (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms that lack chlorophyll and reproduce by fission. They serve important functions as pathogens and have dominant biochemical properties. |
Microbe, germ bug | A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term, however, is not used for technical purposes |
Pathogen | Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism) |
Protocist | Any of the unicellualar protists |
Protist, Protistan | Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes |
Primary Pathogens | Have the ability to transmit disease to, at minimum, a prtion normal individuals |
Opportunistic pathogens | Have the ability to cause disease only in those individuals afflicted with either innate or humoral immune and efficiencies |