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Living cells are known as vegetative cells; the smallest unit of life that is like a tiny factory that is constantly working to live, grow and reproduce. But vegetative cells are vulnerable to damage from many environmental forces.
A few types of cells have a special trick up their sleeve that allows them to go dormant when environmental conditions become inhospitable. The trick is the ability to
Will Probiotics Replace the Increasingly Ineffective Antibiotics?
On an almost daily basis both world and national news gives us an
The most common pathogenic bacteria can vary by community or population, or if considering a particular type of infection. The most
by Linda Green
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"It is by killing individual cells in the body's all-important immune system that
165 Article Titles on Microbiology
- How to classify microbes (2 articles)
- An overview of protozoa (1 article)
- What is a chromosome? (1 article)
- The most common pathogenic bacteria (1 article)
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- Reproduction of bacterial cells (3 articles)
- Physical characteristics of bacteria (2 articles)
- The different kinds of bacteria (2 articles)
- Fun facts about bacteria (4 articles)
- An overview of bacterial type VI secretion systems (2 articles)
- Bacterium profile: Staphylococcus epidermidis (1 article)
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- The differences between free living and parasitic protozoan's (1 article)
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- An overview of the Theileria parasites (3 articles)
- What are microorganisms? (1 article)
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- Life cycle of the schistosoma parasite (3 articles)
- Life cycle of the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides (3 articles)
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- The life cycle of Trichinella spiralis (2 articles)
- A microbiological overview of Entamoeba histolytica (1 article)
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