Bacterium

... apparently the definition of species is LOOSE at that juncture. what about a pig and a cat? what about a bird and a mouse? what about a bacterium and a fungi? what about a bacterium and a human??????? those are two different species, can they mate successfully?? there's probably a very ...

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Bacterium can colonize in other areas of the body besides the GI tract. The lungs, brain, and skin are a few other places. E. coli exist in the GI tract already and are not the same as those you would get from undercooked ...

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... can be lost at the ends, or that it can ligate and produce a molecule that is missing a few bases, which get filled in by the polymerase of the bacterium after you transform your ligation mix. Oftentimes i'll get a whole bunch of re-ligated vector when I pick my colonies and sequence the minipreps, ...

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... they can metabolize almost every substance. Another important (yet problematic) application is the extraction of metals trapped in stone. A bacterium known as Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is responsible for this, but it produces a significant amount of sulfuric acid in return, which is harmful ...

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There is a newly discovered bacterium with the ability to use Sulfer as an electron source and O2 as an electron receptor to generate ATP in aerobic respiration. This bacteria is also a chemoautotroph and uses the calvin cycle. What two ...

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