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MICROBIO [3 records]

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Record 1 2011-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
DEF

Any plant or animal of microscopical size; a protozoan, fungus, bacterium, or virus.

DEF

An organism belonging to the categories of viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae or protozoa. Most of them are small, and the group owes its cohesion to the similarity of methods for their handling.

CONT

The variety of technological uses to which microorganisms are put is enormous. In brewing and baking, the alcohol and carbon dioxide produced in fermentation by yeasts are utilized. Bacterial fermentations are used industrially to produce organic acids and solvents. In food manufacture, microorganisms are used for the production of vinegar, the preservation of olives, sauerkraut, and pickles, for the souring of cream in making butter, for the ripening of cheese, and for the curing of tea and tobacco.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
DEF

Tout organisme vivant visible seulement au microscope. Appartenant aux trois règnes (bactéries, levures, protozoaires). Ils sont aussi des agents actifs dans les fermentations et participent à la décomposition des matières organiques.

CONT

Chaque cellule contient plusieurs milliers d'enzymes, chacune étant capable de catalyser un type de réactions chimiques. [...] Ainsi les biotechnologies nouvelles reposent maintenant à la fois sur l'usage des micro-organismes vivants, mais aussi sur celui des enzymes isolées des cellules et sur des cellules mortes agissant comme réservoirs d'enzymes.

OBS

Tend à se substituer à MICROBE dans le langage scientifique. Pour certains, les virus font partie des microorganismes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias biológicas
  • Microbiología y parasitología
DEF

Nombre aplicado a los seres monocelulares, vegetales o animales, solamente visibles con el microscopio; particularmente, a los que producen enfermedades.

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Record 2 2010-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Origin of Life and Speciation
CONT

Photosynthetic microbes, though able to utilize solar energy, were still restricted to the shallows; ultraviolet radiation from the Sun was so strong that nothing could live exposed on land. Then, around 2.7 billion years ago, a class of organisms called cyanobacteria appeared. Unlike their other photosynthetic cousins, these photosynthetic microbes produced oxygen.

Key term(s)
  • photosynthetic microorganism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Origine de la vie et des espèces en général
CONT

[Les premiers métazoaires] devaient vivre en symbiose avec des microorganismes photosynthétiques qui leur fournissaient des matériaux organiques fabriqués par photosynthèse.

Key term(s)
  • micro-organisme photosynthétique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
  • Origen de la vida y de las especies en general
CONT

Hace 3500 millones de años [...] surgieron unos microbios fotosintéticos, parecidos a las cianobacterias, o algas azul verdosas.

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Record 3 2003-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
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