MicroBio
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caitlin-jung on March 8, 2012
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sterilization | killing all microorganisms including endospores |
| disinfection | killing or inhibiting microbes on nonliving surfaces |
| antisepsis | killing or inhibiting microbes on living tissue |
| sepsis | presence of microbial contamination |
| asepsis | absence of contamination |
| degerming | removing microbes from a limited area |
| sanitization | lowering microbial counts on eating untensils |
| biocide/germicide | kills microbes |
| bactericidal | inhibits bacterial growth |
| contamination | unwanted organisms |
| genetics | the science of heredity and gene function |
| gene | a sequence of nucleotides in DNA encoding a functional product |
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