Germ

Germ or Germs may refer to:

Science

• Germ (microorganism), informal word for a pathogen
• Germ cell
• Cereal germ, the reproductive part of a cereal grain
• Tooth germ, an aggregation of cells that eventually forms a tooth
• Germ theory of disease, which states that some diseases are caused by microorganisms

Art and media

• The Germ (periodical), a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas
• The Germs (comics), a comic strip in the magazine The Beano
• Germs (Invader Zim), an episode of Invader Zim

Music

• Germs (band), an American punk rock band
• "Germs" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• The Germ (album), the fourth album by California punk band Victim's Family

Other uses

• Germ (mathematics), an object in a topological space that captures local properties
• Germ, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département in southwestern France

See also

• Germination
• Stem cell