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Abiotic
non-living
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Actinomyces
In mouth and intestines
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Adineta
Crowned ditch resident
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Aerobic
Needing oxygen
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Agar
Gelatine to grow in
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Alcohol
Far more than a drunk’s tipple
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Alexander Fleming
The birth of antibiotics
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Algae
The green engine
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Alice Catherine Evans
Discovered that raw milk contains pathogenic bacteria
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Amoeba
Shapeshifter
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Anaerobic
Life without oxygen
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Antibiotics
Wonder drug for infections?
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Founder of microbiology
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Archaea
Discovered in very hot water
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Armillaria ostoyae
Giant fungus
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Arthrospira maxima
watery inhabitant
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Aspergillus
Extremely divers and useful fungi
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Autoclave
Cleaning under pressure
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Autotrophic
Independent life
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Bacillus subtilis
Best researched bacterium
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Bacteria
They are everywhere
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Bacteriophage
Friendly virus
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Baudoinia compniacensis
Angel’s share fungus
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Beatrix Potter
Celebrated writer, but ignored scientist
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Belgian brewer’s yeast
unique flavours
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Binary fission
Quick reproduction
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Biodiversity
Look for the difference
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Biofilm
a community of microbes
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Bioluminescence
Natural night lights
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Biotechnology
Around for thousands of years
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Biotic
Living things
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Bitter oyster
flashy forest fungus
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Blepharisma japonicum
Shy protist
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Botryococcus braunii
Fuel factory
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Botrytis cinerea
Noble rot
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Brachionus plicatilis
Self-cultivated food for the ARTIS-sea horses
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Cable bacteria
Microbial electricity
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Caenorhabditis elegans
Roundworm important to research
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Cell
Earth’s smallest life form
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Cell membrane
Where the cell stops
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Cell nucleus
The DNA’s residence
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Cell wall
Prevents bursting
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Chaetomium globosum
Wood rot fungus full of useful substances
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Charles Darwin
Father of the theory of evolution
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Chlamydomonas nivalis
red-coloured green algae in white
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Micro cyclops
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Chlorella vulgaris
common small cell with great potential
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Chloroplast
Energetic sunlight absorber
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Chromosome
Colourful body
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Chroococcus turgidus
Slimy bunch of bacteria
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Ciliates
Crawling, swimming and eating with cilia
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Cladosporium cladosporioides
Plastic eater in your own backyard
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Cladosporium sp.
Gut fungus
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Clostridium difficile
The black sheep of the class
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Clostridium perfringens
Rapidly dividing fat lover
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Colony
Two's a crowd
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Colpidium striatum
shaggy swimmer
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Conjugation
Horizontal gene transfer
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Conservation
The battle against decay
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Culture
The art of multiplying
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Cyanobacteria
Bacteria or algae?
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Cyclops strenuus
Microscopic little lobsters
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Cytoplasm
The fluid cell
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DNA
Key to the organism
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Deinococcus radiodurans
Toughest bacteria on earth
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Diatom
Armour of glass
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Dinoflagellate
Diverse plankton group
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Ecosystem
An organic unit
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Edward Jenner
Developer of the first vaccine
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Elizabeth Bugie
Invisible discoverer of streptomycin
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Endosymbiosis
Linked lives
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Enterobacteriaceae
Sometimes infamous, often indispensable
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Enterococcus faecalis
member of man’s microbiome
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Enzymes
Reaction accelerators
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Ernst Boris Chain
Made penicillin into the drug we know and love
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Escherichia coli
Not really that bad
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Escherichia virus T4
commandeer and copy
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Eukaryote
In possession of a cell nucleus
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Evolution
From microbe to mankind
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Exidiopsis effusa
Frost bearded fungus
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Extremophile
Organisms from extremes
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Fanny Hesse
Unexpected and unacclaimed creator of agar
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Fermentation
Energy supplier
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Firmicutes
abundant gut inhabitants
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Flagellum
Zigzagging with a lash-like appendage
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Foraminifera
Little chambers of calcium
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Frederick Twort
discoverer of bacteriophages
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Fungus
Up to 5 million species
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Fusarium venenatum
The Quorn fungus
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Gene
25,000 genes decide who you are
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Generic modification
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Genetics
What you inherit and from whom
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Gonium
Groups of green algae
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Haematococcus pluvialis
Pink like a flamingo
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Haloferax volcanii
ancient salt lover
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Heterotrophic
Second-hand energy
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Hypholoma fasciculare
Sulphur tuft
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Ignaz Semmelweis
discoverer of the antiseptic method
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Ilja Iljitsj Metsjnikov
At the start of immunology and probiotics
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Infection
Source of sickness and infection
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Janthinobacterium lividum
Useful pigment
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Johanna Westerdijk
First female professor
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John Snow
Founder of epidemiology and infection theory
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Jonas Salk
Developer of the polio vaccine
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Laboratory
Workplace of the laboratory technician
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Lactic acid bacteria
Present and future impact
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Lactobacillus brevis
a bit acidic
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Lactobacillus casei
Indispensable for your health
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Lactobacillus plantarum
A fermenting bacterium in our intestines
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Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG
Keeps our products well
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Lactococcus lactis
Ingested microbe
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Lichens
successful partnership between fungi and algae
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Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology
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Magnetic stirrer
Stirring with a magnet
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Martinus Willem Beijerinck
Father of virology
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Metabolism
The body at work
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Micrasterias thomasiana
star among algae
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Micro-organism or microbe
100 million different species
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Microbiology
The science of micro-organisms
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Microbiome
All your microbes
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Microbiota
Microbes in one place
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Microscope
Progress of the magnifying glass
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Mitochondrion
The cell’s power stations
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Multicellular
Between two and three billion cells
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Mushrooms
Smart spore spreaders
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Mutation
Change in the genetic material
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Mycelium
Network of fungal threads
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Mycorrhiza
Plants and fungi interact
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Navicula sp.
Boat-shaped oxygen factory
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Nematode
Successful string
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Neocallimastix frontalis
Helping with fermentation
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Organelle
The cell’s organs
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Organism
All living things
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PCR
Smart chain reaction
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Parasite
Living off a host
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Pasteurization
Food sterilization with low heat
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Pathogen
Driving force of diseases
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Pediastrum boryanum
Green algae
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Penicillium roqueforti
A famous cheesemaker
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Penicillium vanoranjei
Orange pride
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Petri dish
A container for microbes
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Philodina roseola
Feeds with the flow
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Phormidium animale
Bright green
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Photobacterium phosphoreum
Luminous bacterium
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Photosynthesis
Providing our oxygen
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Pichia barkeri
Micropia yeast
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Pilobolus
Dung fungus
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Pinnularia nobilis
Handy water pollution indicator
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Pipette
Very accurate suspension
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Plankton
Foundation of the food web
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Plasmid
Pieces of DNA with convenient properties
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Prebiotics
Food for your microbes
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Probiotics
Helpful microorganisms
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Prokaryote
Organism with no cell nucleus
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Propionibacterium acnes
Helpful skin resident
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Protists
Eukaryotic microbes
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Psilocybe cubensis
A magic mushroom
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Pyrocystis noctiluca
flashing algae
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Quorum sensing
Crowd control
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RNA
Help in copying
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Radiolaria
Crystal clear creatures
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Rasamsonia emersonii
The thermophilic fungus
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Reproduction
From one, comes another
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Resistance
Insensitive due to super-fast evolution
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Rhizobium
Root nodules
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Rhizopus oligosporus
Tasteful, sustainable and healthy
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Rhodotorula mucilaginosa
Gut yeast
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Ribosome
Indispensable protein factories
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Robert Koch
Father of modern bacteriology
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Rot
Decay after death
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Rotifer
Catching food with a vortex
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SCOBY
Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeasts
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STI
Sick from sex
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Saccharomyces boulardii
Beneficial effects
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae
life in beer, bread and wine
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Sea sparkle
Noctiluca scintillans
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Selenastrum gracile
Green crescent moon
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Selman Waksman
Controversial discoverer of antibiotics
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Sergei Winogradsky
Microbial ecology and the Winogradsky column
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Slide
the micro-world in between glass
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Slime mould
The brainless clever clogs
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Slipper animalcule
Single-cell organism with a tiny mouth
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Spore
Tough reproductive cells
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Staphylococcus aureus
not always too nice
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Staphylococcus epidermidis
Lives in sweaty places
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Starter culture
Microbes in your food
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Sterilization
Removal of microbes
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Streptococcus
At home everywhere
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Streptomycetes
From antibiotics to earthy forest scent
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Symbiosis
In between co-operation and merger
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Synechococcus sp.
Photosynthesizing blue-green algae
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Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
Sustainable cyanobacterium
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Telomere
Repeating end bits
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Tetraselmis suecica
The swimming algae
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Theodor Escherich
discoverer of Escherichia coli
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Tolypothrix distorta
Hairy ball
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Tree of life
Soo many branches
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Trichophyton rubrum
Home between the toes
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Ulothrix zonata
Living camouflage
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Unicellular
From algae to amoebas
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Vaccination
Injecting weakened pathogens
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Vibrio fischeri
The light inside the squid
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Virus
The very smallest are the most numerous
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Volvox
Floating inside the mother sphere
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Water bears or moss piglets
Little survivors all over the place
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Water flea
Bouncing crustaceans
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Xanthoria parietina
a lichen consisting of fungus and algae
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Xylaria polymorpha
Dead man’s fingers
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Yarrowia lipolytica
Desired yeast in the industry
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Yeast
A fungus in a hundred