microorganism


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Synonyms for microorganism

a minute organism usually producing disease

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Synonyms for microorganism

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Nain, "Efficient Microorganism Compost Benefits Plant Growth and Improves Soil Health in Calendula and Marigold," Horticultural Plant Journal, vol.
She said that these microorganisms are everywhere and are inhaled into the lungs all the time.
However lignin, while freely available in wood, has attracted less interest due to low degradability and the issue of some degradation products being harmful to microorganisms.
Results: Among the miswaks used, root of the peelu tree in both packing and without packing exhibited strong antimicrobial effect against all three tested microorganisms. However miswak taken from the stem of the peelu and neem tree did not show any antimicrobial activity against all three types of the tested microorganisms.
Bacteria and yeast is activated in the Activation Tank to make effective microorganisms used in the organic solution.
However, the term microorganism will be understood in its widest sense to include any biological material that is self-replicable or replicable via a host organism.
In selecting appropriate antibiotics, the effect against the offending microorganism must be considered along with the ease of administering the drug, toxicity, cost of the drug, and patient reaction.
Human activity frequently results in streamside vegetation being cut back or damaged, which can destabilize the stream bank and bury algal and microorganism populations under eroded and deposited sediment.
Alternatively, resident cohorting (those with the same infecting microorganism) maybe employed.
Exopolysaccharides produced by microorganisms are emerging as new industrially important biomaterials, and scientists here describe recent research and developments in the field.
This text explores the fundamental elements affecting the presence, activity, and control of microorganisms in food.
Joshua Lederberg, PhD, gave meaning to the term "microbiome" in 2001 as the "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space." (1) This community of microorganisms comprises bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, and protists.