8 sentences with 'bacteria'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bacteria and other words derived from it.
• « Some bacteria can cause disease in humans and animals. Other bacteria, such as those that live in the intestines and help digest food, are helpful. »
• « Lactobacillus is a genus of microaerophilic, non-motile, carbohydrate-fermenting, lactic acid-producing bacteria. »
• « Penicillin is used in the treatment of infections caused by bacteria such as pneumococci, streptococci, meningococci, etc. »
• « One ability of bacteria that has long been known is the ability to adapt to adverse conditions; for example, when they acquire resistance to antibiotics. »
• « Biologists thought that a new antibiotic kills almost all the bacteria it touches, but that some are naturally resistant, and when they reproduce they give rise to new bacteria, which take the place of those that have died. This is supposedly how a resistant community is formed. »
• « But experts discovered that these "primitive" bacteria have created a means of exchanging vital genetic information around the world, a means whose efficiency is comparable to that of our modern telephone and satellite networks. »
• « Historians now refer to this enormous distribution of plant and animal species, as well as bacteria and viruses, as the Columbian Exchange. »
• « The Dutch scientist Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) invented the microscope, and in the 1670s was able to identify what were later called bacteria. »