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MicrobiOLogy

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What is Microbiology?

Microbiology is the study of bacteria, viruses, and other microbes that are invisible to the eye. These tiny creatures are everywhere, even on you and in you! Don't worry, most microbes are harmless to humans.

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Test your knowledge about the major groups of life on Earth.

Medical doctor Lisa Cooper and epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo answers kids’ questions.

Microbiologist Susan Perkins answers kids’ questions about microbes.

Play this game to find out more about the microbes that help and hurt us.

Who will be the first to diversify their gut microbiome and win? 

How can the influenza virus travel around the world? Find out in this quizzy story!

Defend against bad microbes while protecting the good ones in this Minecraft map of the human body. 

Get some mud and a few other ingredients to build an entire ecosystem for bacteria. 

Find out how Lisa’s work impacts the health of communities.

Why does this scientist love studying tiny living things called microbes?

See if you can find the hidden microbes on each coloring page!

In these videos, a biologist introduces us to the microbes that live all around us.

Explore this family tree of living things on Earth.

Test your knowledge about the bacteria and other microbes that live on and in us.