THE CURIOUS MICROBE AMAZING MICROBES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS
THE CURIOUS MICROBE AMAZING MICROBES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS
Some Microbes Survive Massive Radiation! • Some bacteria can live in extreme environments • Deinococcus radiodurans is resistant to radiation
Magnetic microbes • Some organisms use the earth’s geomagnetic field to move • Contain magnetic particles • Each is a magnetic with the north south pole
Life without light • Some bacteria live on the sea floor without sunlight • Tube worms feed off bacteria that utilize hydrogen sulfide as a source of energy
Giant bacteria inhabit fish guts • Most bacteria measure only a few micrometers • Epuloppisciuf fischelsoni live in the guts of fish of the red sea • They are about the size of a period at the end of a sentence
Bacteria beware! • Bdellovibrio devour other bacteria • Live in waters, sewage and soil • This bacteria rotates like a corkscrew to move very fast
May’s microbe of the month: miracle microbe: Serratia marcescens • Grows on bread soil plants animals and in soil • Priests thought there was actual blood on communion bread but scientists think it was this microbe because of its red color
October’s microbe of the month: Mummy shaped diatoms • Look like mummy cases • Grow on plants in ponds and moist soil
August’s microbe of the month: Martian bacillus • NASA discovered what looks like microbe fossils inside a meteorite thought to be from Mars
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