Tuesday 20 August 2013

Free Living Bacteria

From here on in, it's a question of live fast, die young, leave a good looking cell.

Bacteria colonise everywhere on Earth, from the deepest ocean to the highest cloud forest, inside trees, outside trees, inside animals, on the skins of animals, everywhere.

Some get thicker outer walls, and become gram-positive, some thinner and become gram-positive.  Some become parasites that live on, or in, larger creatures.  Some become spiral shaped, and others learn to shape-shift dramatically as a means of locomotion.

They are arguably the most successful life form on the planet.

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