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bacteria

[bak-teer-ee-uh] / bækˈtɪər i ə /
NOUN
microorganisms
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"The bacteria spreads more easily in that group, it's lots of people mixing together, and more independence as people move away from parents."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Many types of bacteria can live and grow in places without oxygen.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Importantly, cleaning removes viruses and bacteria from surfaces, but it can also generate invisible air pollution. There's no visible dust or smoke in the air, but these particles are forming."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Such clothing contains antimicrobial coatings to suppress odor-causing bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

He separated the crude bacterial debris from the virulent smooth strain, mixed it with the live bacteria of the nonvirulent rough strain, and injected the mix into mice.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The team reconstructed 26 genomes of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, from human remains recovered at 11 archaeological sites in Estonia, Russia, England, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Instead, the disease appears to have resurfaced in different parts of Europe over hundreds of years, potentially creating several new reservoirs where the bacterium could persist.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

It uses a harmless bacterium to insert DNA into the rootstock exactly where it is needed to give the tree resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

One long-standing idea in biology proposes that the first eukaryotic cell developed through an intimate partnership between an ancient archaeon and a bacterium.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

His cilia are not cilia at all, but individual spirochetes, and at the base of attachment of each spirochete is an oval organelle, embedded in the myxotricha membrane, which is a bacterium.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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