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Microbe [mahy-krohb]

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Main Entry:	microbe [mahy-krohb] Show IPA/ˈmaɪkroʊb/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bacteria
Synonyms:	bacillus, bacterium, bug*, crud, germ, microorganism, pathogen, plague, virus

* = informal/non-formal usage

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Main Entry:	bug
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bacterium, microorganism
Synonyms:	bacillus, disease, germ, infection, microbe, virus
Notes:	a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings

Main Entry:	germ
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	microscopic organism, often causing illness
Synonyms:	antibody, bacterium, bug, disease, microbe*, microorganism, parasite, pathogen, plague, virus, what's going around

* = informal/non-formal usage

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Rous was cautious, hesitant to claim that the microbe causing cancer in chickens was a virus.

Also noteworthy, this is not the only common microbe found in humans having genes which can manipulate host neurotransmitters.

For a microbe already adapted to one species to adapt to another can be difficult and require a lot of evolutionary time.

Rous was cautious, hesitant to claim that the microbe causing cancer in chickens was a virus.

Also noteworthy, this is not the only common microbe found in humans having genes which can manipulate host neurotransmitters.

For a microbe already adapted to one species to adapt to another can be difficult and require a lot of evolutionary time.

New microbe not only loves the high heat of volcanic hot springs, it also drinks in the sun's energy.

Sometimes, it unleashes a potentially lethal overreaction to the invading microbe.

The new agent might be a microbe or some environmental factor.

Thus once the arms race has been won, using the same old antibiotics is useless against a microbe which has evolved resistance.

Families no longer drink microbe soup, so they spend less time sick or caring for loved ones stricken with waterborne diseases.

One species of soil microbe makes unusually wise communal decisions.

Basically, if you have a gene patent, it means you've managed to isolate a new gene from a microbe and it's yours to profit from.

The microbe becomes locked in a sugar-feasting feedback loop.

It's metabolically inefficient for a microbe to be resistant to both an extreme environment and high radiation.

Desulforudis audaxviator is perhaps the one truly singular microbe.

Feeding on sugar, the microbe grows till it is ready to split in two.

The postulates define, whether a microbe or a virus causes a disease.

Theories put forth so far include that the microbe had an extraterrestrial origin.

Enough scientific equipment on board to sample every microbe in the sea.

For that matter, hazardous numbers of this hardy microbe can survive a bath in straight tequila.

The microbe and the frog already exist as natural symbionts in nature.

Raoult and his colleagues described the mimivirus, a virus so big they originally thought it was a microbe.

Knowing his microbe produced surfactant, he pitched the chemical to companies making shampoo and body wash.

Toxic strains of a common gut microbe are multiplying.

Genencor takes a gene that gives a microbe alkaline resistance and uses it to create enzymes for laundry detergent.

The scientists were trying to use mousepox virus to create an artificial strain of the microbe that would render mice infertile.

The authors offer two explicit mechanisms for the connection between microbe exposure and asthma.

Researchers had used an an adenovirus to slip four genes into each cell, but the microbe was causing lots of collateral damage.

The outbreak resembles one last year that was linked to a different manufacturer's lens solution and a different microbe.

Colloidal silver does not harm the helpful micro flora of the gut and no microbe can develop a resistance to.

When a microbe makes a wax ester from the molecules available to it, it also generates a water molecule.

Prions, the type of microbe that causes the disease, cannot be detected by a blood test.

The microbe in question may indeed change, but it is still the same organism.

Even the smallest microbe can figure out how to find food, eat, excrete and multiply.

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Main Entry:	microorganism
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	germ
Synonyms:	bacterium, bug, disease, disease-causing agent, microbe*, parasite, pathogen, plague, virus

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	virus
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bacterium, bug
Synonyms:	ailment, bacillus, disease, germ, illness, infection, microbe, microorganism, pathogen, sickness

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