bacterium
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5.3
- noun
- /bækˈtɪəriəm/
- Specialized
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bacteria
- Perhaps no larger than a bacterium.
- bacterium Bacillus
- bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis
- strain of bacterium
If you have a jar that's half full of bacteria, OK, the next doubling it's full.
- If you have a jar that's half full of bacteria, OK, the next doubling it's full.
- It all depends on which tests are said to detect the bacteria.
- You take the whole mix and you insert it into the host bacterium.
- Which food swaps can you try to feed those good bacteria?
- And when the production for whatever reason of that bacterium is low, GABA is low and anxiety is high.
- They're selling kits to amateurs, to anybody to play with various bacteria and gene edit these bacteria.
- Then finally, I think we're somewhere near to modelling a bacteria.
Examples
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Escherichia coli is usually a commensal bacterium of humans and animals.
Academic text (2012) -
What if scientists were going to introduce DNA from a cancer causing virus into a gut bacterium that lives in our gut?
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First of all, bacterium is about a Micron.
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And then look at this, we have here a bacterium and here an Archaea.
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A virus grabbed onto a bacterium and it slipped its DNA into it.
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With a single bacterium in it, one that divides and doubles every minute.
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So if you look right there, it finds that little bacterium and it engulfs it and eats it.
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Lyme disease is caused by an infection from the bacterium borrelia burgdorferi.
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Plague, a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, has been responsible for at least three pandemics.
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The scientists isolated the bacterium responsible for the infection in the patient's bloodstream.
Compounds
- Specialized
A bacterium that turns nitrite into nitrate to help plants get nitrogen
- Specialized
A tiny living thing that turns ammonia into nitrite in soil or water
How Complex
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3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word bacterium comes from the Greek word bakterion, which means 'small rod' or 'staff', because many bacteria look like tiny rods under a microscope. So a bacterium is a very small living thing you can only see with a microscope, and you may know the plural bacteria.