Microbiology from A to Z
non-living
In mouth and intestines
Needing oxygen
Gelatine to grow in
Far more than a drunk’s tipple
The birth of antibiotics
The green engine
Shapeshifter
Life without oxygen
Wonder drug for infections?
Founder of microbiology
Discovered in very hot water
watery inhabitant
Extremely divers and useful fungi
Cleaning under pressure
Independent life
Best researched bacterium
They are everywhere
Friendly virus
Angel’s share fungus
Celebrated writer, but ignored scientist
unique flavours
Quick reproduction
Look for the difference
a community of microbes
Natural night lights
Around for thousands of years
Living things
flashy forest fungus
Shy protist
Fuel factory
Noble rot
Self-cultivated food for the ARTIS-sea horses
Roundworm important to research
Earth’s smallest life form
Where the cell stops
The DNA’s residence
Prevents bursting
Wood rot fungus full of useful substances
Father of the theory of evolution
red-coloured green algae in white
Micro cyclops
common small cell with great potential
Energetic sunlight absorber
Colourful body
Slimy bunch of bacteria
Crawling, swimming and eating with cilia
Gut fungus
The black sheep of the class
Rapidly dividing fat lover
Two's a crowd
shaggy swimmer
Horizontal gene transfer
The battle against decay
The art of multiplying
Bacteria or algae?
Microscopic little lobsters
The fluid cell
Key to the organism
Toughest bacteria on earth
Armour of glass
Diverse plankton group
An organic unit
Developer of the first vaccine
Invisible discoverer of streptomycin
Linked lives
Sometimes infamous, often indispensable
member of man’s microbiome
Reaction accelerators
Made penicillin into the drug we know and love
Not really that bad
commandeer and copy
In possession of a cell nucleus
From microbe to mankind
Frost bearded fungus
Organisms from extremes
Unexpected and unacclaimed creator of agar
Energy supplier
abundant gut inhabitants
Zigzagging with a lash-like appendage
Little chambers of calcium
discoverer of bacteriophages
Up to 5 million species
25,000 genes decide who you are
What you inherit and from whom
Groups of green algae
Red algae
ancient salt lover
Second-hand energy
Sulphur tuft
discoverer of the antiseptic method
At the start of immunology and probiotics
Source of sickness and infection
Useful pigment
First female professor
Founder of epidemiology and infection theory
Developer of the polio vaccine
Workplace of the laboratory technician
Present and future impact
a bit acidic
Indispensable for your health
Keeps our products well
Ingested microbe
successful partnership between fungi and algae
Father of microbiology
Stirring with a magnet
Father of virology
The body at work
star among algae
100 million different species
The science of micro-organisms
All your microbes
Microbes in one place
Progress of the magnifying glass
The cell’s power stations
Between two and three billion cells
Smart spore spreaders
Change in the genetic material
Network of fungal threads
Plants and fungi interact
Boat-shaped oxygen factory
Successful string
Helping with fermentation
The cell’s organs
All living things
Smart chain reaction
Living off a host
Food sterilization with low heat
Driving force of diseases
Green algae
A famous cheesemaker
Orange pride
A container for microbes
Feeds with the flow
Bright green
Luminous bacterium
Providing our oxygen
Micropia yeast
Dung fungus
Handy water pollution indicator
Very accurate suspension
Foundation of the food web
Pieces of DNA with convenient properties
Food for your microbes
Helpful microorganisms
Organism with no cell nucleus
Helpful skin resident
Eukaryotic microbes
flashing algae
Crowd control
Help in copying
Crystal clear creatures
From one, comes another
Insensitive due to super-fast evolution
Root nodules
Gut yeast
Indispensable protein factories
Father of modern bacteriology
Decay after death
Catching food with a vortex
Sick from sex
Beneficial effects
life in beer, bread and wine
Noctiluca scintillans
Green crescent moon
Controversial discoverer of antibiotics
Microbial ecology and the Winogradsky column
the micro-world in between glass
The brainless clever clogs
Single-cell organism with a tiny mouth
Tough reproductive cells
not always too nice
Lives in sweaty places
Microbes in your food
Removal of microbes
At home everywhere
From antibiotics to earthy forest scent
In between co-operation and merger
Sustainable cyanobacterium
Repeating end bits
discoverer of Escherichia coli
Soo many branches
Home between the toes
From algae to amoebas
Injecting weakened pathogens
The light inside the squid
The very smallest are the most numerous
Floating inside the mother sphere
Little survivors all over the place
Bouncing crustaceans
a lichen consisting of fungus and algae
Desired yeast in the industry
A fungus in a hundred