mikrobensiä
Mikrobensiä is a fictional term used in some microbiology-themed speculative fiction and teaching resources to describe an integrated microbial community that functions as a single, cohesive entity. It is not an officially recognized term in real-world microbiology, and there is no formal taxonomic category by this name.
The concept envisions diverse microbial inhabitants—bacteria, archaea, fungi, and sometimes microeukaryotes—forming a network of interdependent metabolic
In fictional contexts and some teaching scenarios, mikrobensiä is used as a heuristic to illustrate how microbial
Limitations and cautions: mikrobensiä is a conceptual model rather than a formal scientific category. It is
See also: microbiome, microbial consortium, biofilm, symbiosis, synthetic ecology.