bacterium

Mikroskobik tek hücreli organizma

A microscopic single-celled organism that can cause disease or be beneficial.

• A single bacterium can multiply rapidly.
• This bacterium causes food poisoning.
• Some bacteria are helpful for digestion.
• Antibiotic resistance develops when a bacterium acquires genetic mutations that confer survival advantages under selective pressure.
• Microbiologists isolated a novel bacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents that thrives in extreme temperature conditions.
• The gut microbiome contains trillions of bacterial cells, with each bacterium playing a role in digestion and immunity.

Eş anlamlılar: microbe, germ, microorganism