As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Biovar Notes: Definitions & Explanations PDF | Download eBooks

Download Biovar Notes App (Play Store) Download Biovar Notes App (App Store)

Study Biovar lecture notes PDF with microbiology definitions and explanation to study What is Biovar?. Study biovar explanation with microbiology terms to review microbiology course for online degree programs.

Biovar Definition:

  • Variant strains of microbes characterized by biological or physiological differences.

    Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton



Biovar Notes:

A biovar is a type of prokaryotic strain that is distinct in the biochemical composition and physiology from other strains in specific species. Serovars, also known as serotypes, are strains that have antigenic properties different from other strains and morphovars or morphotypes are strains that are morphologically different from other species.

Keep Learning with Microbiology Notes

What is Competitive Inhibitor?

Competitive inhibitors are from the category of enzymes called reversible inhibitors. Reversible inhibitors dissociate the enzyme-inhibitor complex. They usually bind ...

What is Bioaugmentation?

Bioaugmentation or biological augmentation is the process in which bacterial cultures or archaea are added to speed up the contaminant's ...

What is Biomagnification?

Bio magnification or biological magnification/bio amplification is the increase of concentration of a substance or a toxic chemical in the ...

What is Aerotolerant Anaerobe?

Aerotolerant anaerobes are those anaerobes, which can tolerate the presence of oxygen or can guard themselves from oxygen molecules but ...

What is Capsomer?

Capsomeres are the subunits of capsids. Capsids are the outer covering made of proteins that provides protection to the viral ...

What is Bdellovibrio?

Bdellovibrio are those bacteria that can attack and prey on other gram-negative bacteria and they eat the biopolymers such as ...