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bacterium

[bak-teer-ee-uhm] / bækˈtɪər i əm /






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Sample-return missions could even bring these microbes back to Earth; experiments on the International Space Station have even confirmed that Conan the Bacterium can survive for at least three years in space.

From Scientific American • Oct. 27, 2022

The researchers found that Conan the Bacterium could absorb as much as 28,000 times more radiation than what a human can survive.

From Scientific American • Oct. 27, 2022

Bacterium interact by physical signals when it is alone.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Bacterium interact by chemical signals when it is alone.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Nikolaiewa57 claimed to have isolated a hitherto unknown bacillus capable of coagulating milk by acid production, Bacterium caucasicum, not identical with, but related to Freudenreich's Bacillus caucasicus, and also a torula.

From The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente by Douglas, Loudon




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