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
They are everywhere
Friendly virus
Quick reproduction
Look for the difference
Around for thousands of years
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
Energetic sunlight absorber
Colourful body
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
Toughest bacteria on earth
Armour of glass
Key to the organism
An organic unit
Linked lives
Reaction accelerators
Not really that bad
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
Sulphur tuft
Source of sickness and infection
Useful pigment
First female professor
Indispensable for your health
The body at work
The science of micro-organisms
All your microbes
Microbes in one place
100 million different species
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
The cell’s organs
Living off a host
Driving force of diseases
A famous cheesemaker
Orange pride
providing our oxygen
Dung fungus
Organism with no cell nucleus
Helpful skin resident
flashing algae
From one, comes another
Root nodules
Gut yeast
Help in copying
Catching food with a vortex
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
Sick from sex
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
A fungus in a hundred