Sentence examples for hardy germs from inspiring English sources
Drawing parallels with Darwin's classic theory of evolution, Smaldino claims that various forms of bad scientific practice flourish in the academic world, much like hardy germs that thwart extermination in real life.
These hardy germs can quickly spread to family members, schoolmates and co-workers, threatening the community with new strains that are more difficult to kill and more expensive to treat.
Anthrax is what the Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg calls a "professional pathogen," a hardy germ that could wreak havoc if inhaled.
Selecting and growing a potent biological agent, maintaining its virulence, making the germs hardy enough and stable enough for widespread dissemination and finding an efficient means of spreading them around all pose obstacles that have frustrated even well-financed state weapons programs.
Another speaker, Dr. Stuart Levy, director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University in Boston, said antibacterial soaps and sprays, popular for washing hands and spritzing kitchen counters, may actually encourage the growth of ever-hardier, drug-resistant germs.
As a result, flour was not the inert white powder most of us are familiar with today; it was pungent, golden and speckled, because of fragrant oils released from the living germ and bits of hardy bran.
The spores from C. difficile are hardy, and contaminated surfaces must be scrubbed down with bleach to eradicate the germ.
In his bestselling book, Guns, Germs, And Steel, the anthropologist Jared Diamond identifies the chickpea as one of several hardy, nutrition-packed food crops that grew in the Fertile Crescent and enabled its people to develop agriculture and, in turn, cities, armies, systems of taxation and governments.
