See Also: gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci(medicine)
gram-negative aerobic bacteria(medicine)
gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rods(medicine)
gram-negative anaerobic straight, curved, and helical rods(medicine)
gram-positive rods(medicine)
gram-positive asporogenous rods(medicine)
gram-positive asporogenous rods, regular(medicine)
gram-positive endospore-forming rods(medicine)
gram-positive asporogenous rods, irregular(medicine)
Gram-negative(medicine)

gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (medicine) and literacy (iou)


gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (medicine)


gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci
<microbiology> A group of gram-negative bacteria consisting of rod- and coccus-shaped cells.

They are both aerobic (able to grow under an air atmosphere) and microaerophilic (grow better in low concentrations of oxygen) under nitrogen-fixing conditions but, when supplied with a source of fixed nitrogen, they grow as aerobes.


literacy (iou)



literacy noun. L19.
[from LITERATE: see -ACY. After earlier ILLITERACY.]
The quality or state of being literate; knowledge of letters; condition in respect to Education, esp. ability to read and write.
Comb.: COMPUTER literacy; literacy hour a period in school set aside for developing reading skills, introduced as a daily requirement in English primary schools in 1998.