microorganism

C2779
concept

A microorganism is a microscopic living organism, such as a bacterium, virus, fungus, or protozoan, that is too small to be seen with the naked eye and typically requires a microscope for observation.

All labels observed (56)

Label Occurrences
bacterial genus 85
virus 14
pathogenic bacterium 12

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: microorganism
Generated description
A microorganism is a microscopic living organism, such as a bacterium, virus, fungus, or protozoan, that is too small to be seen with the naked eye and typically requires a microscope for observation.

Instances (177)

Instance Via concept surface
Archaea
Yersinia pestis pathogen
Bremia oomycete
Helicobacter bacterial genus
Arcobacter bacterial genus
Sulfurospirillum bacterial genus
Nitratiruptor bacterial genus
Malacobacter bacterial genus
Proteobacteria bacterial phylum
Naegleria fowleri free-living amoeba
Plasmopara oomycete
Wolinella bacterial genus
Euglena protist
Naegleria gruberi free-living organism
Phytophthora nicotianae oomycete
Leishmania donovani unicellular eukaryote
Pseudoperonospora water mold
Jakobid flagellates unicellular eukaryote group
Sclerospora oomycete
Fornicate flagellates protists
Corallochytrea unicellular eukaryote group
Leptospira interrogans pathogenic bacterium
Salmonella spp. bacterial genus
Alphaproteobacteria bacterial class
Rhizobiaceae bacterial family
Asgard archaea archaeal superphylum
DPANN superphylum archaeal superphylum
Kra 1 archaeal strain
Escherich
surface form: Escherichia
bacterial genus
Jordan
surface form: Bradyrhizobium
bacterial genus
bacteriophage T2
surface form: Bacteriophage T2
virus
Human mastadenovirus D virus species
Zaire ebolavirus virus species
Yersin
surface form: Yersinia
bacterial genus
Marburg virus virus
EAEC
surface form: enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
bacterialPathotype
Thrax virus
hepatitis C virus virus
Clostridioides difficile Gram-positive bacterium
Group B Streptococcus beta-hemolytic Streptococcus
Harald Huber
surface form: Nanoarchaeum equitans
symbiotic microorganism
Mycobacteriaceae bacterial family
Mycobacterium leprae pathogen
Mycobacterium kansasii non-tuberculous mycobacterium
Mycobacterium ulcerans pathogenic bacterium
Rhodococcus bacterial genus
Tsukamurella bacterial genus
Gordonia bacterial genus
Dietzia bacterial genus
Lawsonella bacterial genus