Microbiology from A to Z
In mouth and intestines
Needing oxygen
Gelatine to grow in
Far more than a drunk’s tipple
The birth of antibiotics
The green engine
Life without oxygen
Wonder drug for infections?
Founder of microbiology
Discovered in very hot water
watery inhabitant
Best researched bacterium
They are everywhere
Friendly virus
Angel’s share fungus
unique flavours
Quick reproduction
Look for the difference
a community of microbes
Around for thousands of years
flashy forest fungus
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
Father of the theory of evolution
red-coloured green algae in white
Energetic sunlight absorber
Colourful body
Crawling, swimming and eating with cilia
Gut fungus
The black sheep of the class
Rapidly dividing fat lover
Horizontal gene transfer
The battle against decay
The art of multiplying
Bacteria or algae?
The fluid cell
Key to the organism
Toughest bacteria on earth
Armour of glass
An organic unit
Linked lives
member of man’s microbiome
Reaction accelerators
Not really that bad
commandeer and copy
In possession of a cell nucleus
From microbe to mankind
Organisms from extremes
Energy supplier
Up to 5 million species
25,000 genes decide who you are
What you inherit and from whom
Red algae
ancient salt lover
Sulphur tuft
Source of sickness and infection
Useful pigment
First female professor
Present and future impact
a bit acidic
Indispensable for your health
Keeps our products well
Ingested microbe
successful partnership between fungi and algae
The body at work
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
Helping with fermentation
The cell’s organs
Living off a host
Driving force of diseases
A famous cheesemaker
Orange pride
Micropia yeast
Dung fungus
Helpful microorganisms
Organism with no cell nucleus
Helpful skin resident
flashing algae
Help in copying
From one, comes another
Root nodules
Gut yeast
Catching food with a vortex
Sick from sex
Beneficial effects
life in beer, bread and wine
Noctiluca scintillans
Green crescent moon
the micro-world in between glass
The brainless clever clogs
Single-cell organism with a tiny mouth
not always too nice
Lives in sweaty places
At home everywhere
From antibiotics to earthy forest scent
In between co-operation and merger
Repeating end bits
Home between the toes
From algae to amoebas
Injecting weakened pathogens
The very smallest are the most numerous
Floating inside the mother sphere
Little survivors all over the place
Bouncing crustaceans
Desired yeast in the industry
A fungus in a hundred
providing our oxygen