Microbiome

Microbiome

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Description

A microbiome is the collection of genomes from all the microorganisms found in a particular environment. Humans, plants, and other animals all have microbiomes; these can be generalised to their entire organism, or broken down into specific microbiomes for different locations on them.

Microbiomes are individual to each organism; the diversity in microbiomes between individuals is huge, and even within a person there can be extensive variation in their microbiome makeup. For humans, there are a number of specific and separate microbiomes present. From skin to lungs to the gastrointestinal tract (to name a few), all of these specific microbiomes make up a unique microbiome for each human.

Source: https://www.fiosgenomics.com/microbiome-vs-microbiota/

First contributor: Marco Rado

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