Germ can mean:

• Microorganism, especially a pathogenic one; see Germ theory of disease.
• Germ cell, a cell that has all the information to grow into a complete adult organism.
• The Germ (periodical), a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas.
• Germ (mathematics)
• Cereal germ
• Germ, a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département, in southwestern France

The plural form Germs can refer to: A cluster of Escherichia coli bacteria magnified 10,000 times. ... A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. ... The germ theory of disease, also called the pathogenic theory of medicine, is a theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. ... A germ cell is a kind of cell that is part of the germline, and is involved in the reproduction of organisms. ... Illustration by Holman Hunt to Thomas Woolners poem My Beautiful Lady, published in The Germ, 1850 The Germ was a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to diseminate their ideas. ... Persephone, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ... In mathematics, a germ is an equivalence class of continuous functions from one topological space to another (often from the real line to itself), in which one point x0 in the domain has been singled out as privileged. ... The germ is the heart of the cereal kernel, the embryo of the seed, and a concentrated source of several essential nutrients including Vitamin E, folate (folic acid), phosphorus, thiamin, zinc and magnesium. ... Germ is a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département, in southwestern France. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Hautes-Pyrénées is a département in southwestern France. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ...

• The Germs, an American punk rock band,
• The Germs (comics), a comic book
• Germs (Invader Zim), an episode from Invader Zim.
• Germs, a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic

The Germs are a punk rock band from Los Angeles formed in the late 1970s. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Germs is a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Germs is an episode of the series Invader Zim, produced and aired as episode 4A on April 20, 2001. ... Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by comic book writer/artist Jhonen Vasquez and aired on Nickelodeon. ... Weird Al Yankovic (album) Alfred Matthew Weird Al Yankovic (IPA pronunciation: ; born October 23, 1959) is an American musician, satirist, parodist, accordionist, and television producer. ...

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