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microbe(genetic biology) |
- Grammar: noun
plural: microbes - Definition: a minute life form or microorganism
- Example:
1. Collectins are proteins that can detect and bind onto specific sugars on the surface of invading microbes.
2. Cells respond to changes in the external environment such as invasion by a microbe. - Related Word: microbial (adjective)
- Usage Note: Microbe is often used conversationally to refer to any bacterium that causes disease.
- Search history: microbe <- Signal <- Tissue <- synapse <- fibronectin
