7 sentences with “bacterium”

For a bacterium, for example, food is rubbish: its preferred menu is waste.

The information necessary for a bacterium to live fits into a programme with a few hundred thousand instructions.

It turned out to be a rare antibiotic-resistant bacterium - Pseudomonas cepacia - but her immune system was strong enough to kill it.

When one bacterium encounters another, it often sends it a tiny tube or filament, through which it sends second-hand genes in the form of extranuclear DNA rings.

The information needed to copy and operate a bacterium fits on a strip of DNA, a short programme of a few hundred thousand instructions. But the operation of a worm no longer fits in genes and requires a rudimentary nervous system, a neural network.

If a bacterium survives the onslaught of a new antibiotic, it can quickly share its method of resistance by giving another bacterium second-hand genes containing the corresponding information. In this way, antibiotic resistance spreads very rapidly in the microscopic world.

When a virus, bacterium or other foreign body enters the bloodstream, macrophages are tasked with telling T cells what type of invader is about to attack. They eat it, process it and distribute on their own surface certain types of components that allow the lymphocytes to identify the type of aggressor.