Crossword clues for microbiology
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Microbiology \Mi`cro*bi*ol"o*gy\, n. [See Microbe; -logy.] The branch of biology studying minute organisms, or microbes, such as the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa. -- Mi`cro*bi`o*log"ic*al, a. -- Mi`cro*bi*ol"o*gist, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) The branch of biology that deals with microorganisms, especially their effects on man and other living organisms.
WordNet
n. the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans
Wikipedia
Microbiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research in all aspects of microbiology, including the biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, developmental biology, physiology, pathogenicity, biodiversity, evolution, and genetics of microorganisms and viruses. It also covers plant–microbe interactions, and environmental and theoretical microbiology. The journal is published monthly by the Society for General Microbiology.
The journal was established in January 1947 as the Journal of General Microbiology and obtained its current name in 1994. Since 2010, the editor in chief has been Agnès Fouet ( Institut Cochin, Paris).
The entire back archive, from 1947, is available online in PDF and (for papers published since 1997) in text formats. Papers are currently available free 12 months after print publication; additionally, all accepted papers are published immediately online ahead of final publication.
According to the Journal Citation Reports its 2010 impact factor is 2.853. It has a strong 5-year Impact factor (3.173), an Eigenfactor Score of 0.03612 and an Article influence score of 1.100. The journal has a long cited half-life of 8.1.
Microbiology (from Greek , mīkros, "small"; , bios, " life"; and , -logia) is the study of microscopic organisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, mycology, parasitology, and bacteriology.
Eukaryotic micro-organisms possess membrane-bound cell organelles and include fungi and protists, whereas prokaryotic organisms—all of which are microorganisms—are conventionally classified as lacking membrane-bound organelles and include eubacteria and archaebacteria. Microbiologists traditionally relied on culture, staining, and microscopy. However, less than 1% of the microorganisms present in common environments can be cultured in isolation using current means. Microbiologists often rely on extraction or detection of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA sequences.
Viruses have been variably classified as organisms, as they have been considered either as very simple microorganisms or very complex molecules. Prions, never considered microorganisms, have been investigated by virologists, however, as the clinical effects traced to them were originally presumed due to chronic viral infections, and virologists took search—discovering "infectious proteins".
As an application of microbiology, medical microbiology is often introduced with medical principles of immunology as microbiology and immunology. Otherwise, microbiology, virology, and immunology as basic sciences have greatly exceeded the medical variants, applied sciences.
Usage examples of "microbiology".
Paley explains that three scientists from the Russian RKK Energia company and two from the European Space Agency have been bumped for the new science mission, and everyone turns to look at Mariella, Penn Brown, and Anchee Ye when he introduces them as the specialists who will be working on the microbiology project.
They were intended for a new microbiology lab, but they had been sitting around for months.
Institute of Applied Microbiology was involved in research into infectious diseases, but the high wire fence and heavy gates manned around the clock by troops from the Ministry of Internal Affairs ensured that there would be no casual visitors.
Martian origin for the slick significant enough to send a microbiology team to Mars, to the same area as the Chinese expedition.
I asked an analyst to check airline tickets from the microbiology conference.
I need to know about any more anonymous letters about any scientific research connected with microbiology, recombinant DNA, or gene splicing.
Her big parties included everybody who was important in microbiology that she could entice to come.
So I told the dispatcher that it was important I get to a microbiology conference at the St.
The Arbitration Board had settled on a figure of six billion, and the entire Microbiology Department went on strike pending a meeting with the Director.
CDC as an EIS officer in the late fifties and had become increasingly interested in microbiology and ultimately virology.
Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, the Microbiology Research Establishment at Porton Down in England, the World Health Organization.
Anna Weinstein, professor of microbiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Donohue was merely professionally interested in the epidemic and so was examining the microbiology involved.
That was very specialized microbiology, and Melanie had been trained as a physician, a general practitioner.
From her CV, Henry had learned that Marchetti was thirty-two, had dual doctorates in reproductive medicine and microbiology from the University of Milan, and had worked for six years at an Italian pharmaceutical house supervising the production of human growth hormone from bacteria.