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| Bacteria (singular bacterium) |
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| One-celorled microorganisms with both plant and animal characteristics. Some are harmful, some are harmless. Also known as microbes or germs |
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| Communicable by infection from one person to another person or from one infected body part to another. |
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| nonscientific synonyms for diease-producing bacteria. |
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| any organisim of microscopic to submicroscopic size. |
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| Suffix meaning "study of" |
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| An organism that grows, feeds, and shelters on or in another organism, while contributing nothing to the survival of that organism. |
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| Any of the various poisonous substances produceed by some microorganisms. |
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| A parasitic submicroscopic particule that infects cells of biological organisms. A virus is capable of replication only through taking over the host cell's reproduction machinery. |
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