microbiology

Noun
  1. The branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans (synset 106087198)
    associated with:
    • bacteria, bacterium - (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants
    • colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
    • prion - (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system
    • virino - (microbiology) a hypothetical infectious particle thought to be the cause of scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the central nervous system; consists of nucleic acid in a protective coat of host cell proteins
    • exacting, fastidious - having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
    • unfastidious - not exacting in nutritional requirements
    is a type of: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms

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