A biofilm is also known as a microbial mat and may be:

  1. A technique of immobilizing cells by growing microbes in a thin layer of a living or nonliving substance.
  2. A layered culture of microbes.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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