Germ or germs may refer to:

Science

Germ (microorganism) In biology, a pathogen ( el, πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of") in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a Germ ...

, an informal word for a pathogen *

Germ cell Germ or germs may refer to: Science * Germ (microorganism), an informal word for a pathogen * Germ cell, cell that gives rise to the gametes of an organism that reproduces sexually * Germ layer, a primary layer of cells that forms during embr ...

, cell that gives rise to the gametes of an organism that reproduces sexually *

Germ layer A germ layer is a primary layer of cells that forms during embryonic development. The three germ layers in vertebrates are particularly pronounced; however, all eumetazoans (animals that are sister taxa to the sponges) produce two or three p ...

, a primary layer of cells that forms during embryonic development * Cereal germ, the reproductive part of a cereal grain *

Tooth germ Tooth development or odontogenesis is the complex process by which teeth form from embryonic cells, grow, and erupt into the mouth. For human teeth to have a healthy oral environment, all parts of the tooth must develop during appropriate stage ...

, an aggregation of cells that eventually forms a tooth *

Germ theory of disease The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can lead to disease. These small organisms, too small to be seen without magnification, invade ...

, which states that some diseases are caused by microorganisms *

Germ (mathematics) In mathematics, the notion of a germ of an object in/on a topological space is an equivalence class of that object and others of the same kind that captures their shared local properties. In particular, the objects in question are mostly functio ...

, an object in a topological space that captures local properties

Art and media

Music

* Germs (band), an American punk rock band * Germ (musician), a stage name of Tim Wright * Germ (rapper), an American rapper affiliated with Suicideboys and Pouya * "Germs" (song), by "Weird Al" Yankovic * ''The Germ'' (album), by Victim's Family

Others

* "Germs" (''Invader Zim''), an episode of ''Invader Zim'' * ''The Germ'' (periodical), a British art magazine published in 1850 *

The Germs (comics) The Germs is a comic strip in the UK comic '' The Beano''. It first appeared in issue 2374, dated 16 January 1988, replacing the Rasher strip, where the characters had been introduced the previous week.The Beano issue 3623 dated 18 February 2012 ...

, a comic strip * "The Germ", an episode of ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero''

Other uses

Germ, Hautes-Pyrénées Germ (; oc, Gèrm) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have ...

, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department of southwestern France *

Germ Hofma Gerben 'Germ' Hofma (19 April 1925 – 14 October 2018)Germination Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi, fe ...

, the process by which an organism grows from a seed or similar structure *

Stem cell In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can differentiate into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem cell. They are the earliest type of ...

, biological cells that can differentiate into other types of cells *

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, people from Germany {{disambiguation