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Parent topics
- Bacteriology [r]: The branch of microbiology concerned with the study, use, and control of bacteria [e]
- Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
- Cells [r]: The basic unit of life, consisting of biochemical networks enclosed by a membrane. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- Microbiologist [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Microbiology [r]: The study of microorganisms (overlapping with areas of virology, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology). [e]
- Microorganism [r]: A 'germ', an organism that is too small to be seen individually with the naked eye. [e]
Subtopics
- Acidobacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Actinobacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anaerobacter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Burkholderia cenocepacia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spirochaete [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Staphylococcus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Streptococcus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Streptomyces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sulfate-reducing bacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Synergistetes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bacteroidetes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemolithotroph [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemotroph [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Extremophile [r]: Organism living, or at least surviving, under biologically extreme conditions. [e]
- Facultative anaerobe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heterotroph [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cell biology
- 16S ribosomal RNA [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Asexual reproduction [r]: Forms of biological reproduction that do not require a prior fusion of sexually differentiated cells [e]
- Bacterial conjugation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bacterial gliding [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bacterial growth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bacterial mat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bacteriophage [r]: A virus that infects bacteria; often called a phage. [e]
- Binary fission [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemotaxis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gram stain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gram-negative [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gram-positive [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Peptidoglycan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phototaxis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pilus [r]: Hairlike appendage found on the surface of many gram-negative bacteria, shorter, thinner and straighter than flagella. [e]
- Plasmid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Quorum sensing [r]: Ability of populations of bacteria to communicate and coordinate their behavior via inter-cellular and inter-species signaling molecules. [e]
- transduction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- transformation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Disease
- Anthrax [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bubonic plague [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infectious disease [r]: Diseases caused by living organisms. [e]
- Listeria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lyme disease [r]: Emerging infection transmitted by the bite of ticks carrying the spirochete bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. [e]
- Pathogenic bacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pneumonia [r]: Inflammation of the lungs (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Syphilis [r]: Chronic infectious disease caused by a spirochete Treponema pallidum, either transmitted by direct contact, usually in sexual intercourse, or passed from mother to child in utero. [e]
- Tetanus [r]: Acute, often fatal disease characterized by spasmodic contraction of voluntary muscles, especially those of the neck and jaw, and caused by the toxin of the bacillus Clostridium tetani. [e]
- Tuberculosis [r]: Infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body. [e]
- Typhoid fever [r]: An acute systemic, febrile infection caused by Salmonella typhi, a serotype of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi, spread by fecal-oral contamination, best prevented by water treatment [e]
- Virulence [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Carl Woese [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Archaea [r]: A major group of numerous microorganisms fundamentally different from the bacteria and including many chemolithotrophs and extremophiles. [e]
- Three-domain system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Louis Pasteur [r]: (1822 - 1895) Disproved abiogenesis, the theory of spontaneous generation of microbes. [e]
- Abiogenesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aerobic organism [r]: An organism that has an oxygen-based metabolism. [e]
- Anaerobic organism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell division [r]: The process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. [e]
- Cell envelope [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell growth [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cell membrane [r]: The outer surface of a cell which encloses its contents. [e]
- Cell wall [r]: A rigid enclosure (in plants, made of cellulose and pectin; in prokaryotes, generally of peptidoglycan) for a cell for structural purposes. [e]
- Chloroplast [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Denitrification [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eukaryote [r]: An organism that is composed of one or more cells containing cell nuclei. [e]
- Exponential growth [r]: Increase of a quantity x with time t according to the equation x = Kat, where K and a are constants, a is greater than 1, and K is greater than 0. [e]
- Flagella [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Horizontal gene transfer [r]: Transfer of genetic material to a being other than one of the donor's offspring. [e]
- Metabolic pathway [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolism [r]: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. [e]
- Mitochondrion [r]: Structure, function, life cycle and evolutionary theories involving the origins and role of the mitochondrion. [e]
- Nutrient cycle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Organelle [r]: Specialized subunit within a cell that has a specific function, and is usually separately enclosed within its own lipid membrane, found in all eukaryotic cells. [e]
- Protist [r]: A unicellular organism grouped into the kingdom Protista that may have characteristics of plants and/or animals. [e]
- Proteobacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rickettsia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stromatolite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Symbiont [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virus [r]: A microscopic particle that can infect the cells of a biological organism and cannot reproduce without the assistance of the cells it infects. [e]
- Yeast [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yoghurt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Agar plate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- bioengineer [r]: The application of electrical, mechanical, chemical, optical, nuclear and other engineering principles to understand, modify and control biological (plants and animals - including human) systems. [e]
- Biofilm [r]: Layers of organic material composed of and produced by microorganisms. [e]
- Bioremediation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biotechnology [r]: The application of biological principles in industrial production [e]
- Fermentation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Selective media [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Transgenic bacteria [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hans Christian Gram [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ziehl-Neelsen stain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antibiotic resistance [r]: The development of resistance to an antibiotic in an organism originally susceptible to it [e]
- Penicillin [r]: A class of antibiotic drugs that have a common β-lactam core structure. [e]
- Puromycin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vancomycin [r]: A glycopeptide antibiotic used in the prophylaxis and treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria, especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) [e]
