What is "micro-organisms"

Usage examples of "micro-organisms".

Looking down it he described for the first time in human history a hitherto invisible world, teeming with micro-organisms - animalicules, he called them - present in their thousands in every drop of pond-water.

Most vascular plants and mosses succumbed as well, leaving the land and oceans empty save for micro-organisms: multi-celled animals like algae and fungi.

The parcels in which the micro-organisms arrived were egg-like, containing a small amount of prepackaged nutrients.

There were new micro-organisms in the poisoned soil against which there was no defense.

The aboriginal micro-organisms here did not attack wastes of introduced terrestrial types.

Familiar micro-organisms and a standard vegetation added to the practicality of human settlements on otherwise alien worlds.

There were plants, as has come about wherever micro-organisms have broken down rock to a state where it can nourish vegetation.

Today, in the human bloodstream, are micro-organisms which, a scant year ago, would have caused a painful and violent death.

The micro-organisms which once threatened his life now work with his body to maintain its functions.

What would happen if micro-organisms in a culture tray were subjected to hard radiation?

It is also possible that planets with very hostile environments by terrestrial standards, or planets where there is a great danger of contamination by terrestrial micro-organisms, will be explored by men inside machines like enormous prosthetic devices, amplifying the sense perceptions and muscular abilities of the human operator.