All 9 Uses of
bacteria
in
The Hot Zone
- At the Institute, there are always a number of programs going on simultaneously—research into vaccines for various kinds of bacteria, such as anthrax and botulism, research into the characteristics of viruses that might infect American troops, either naturally or in the form of a battlefield weapon.†
p. 58..5
- Beginning with the Second World War, Army labs at Fort Detrick performed research into offensive biological weapons—the Army was developing strains of lethal bacteria and viruses that could be loaded into bombs and dropped on an enemy.†
p. 58..7
- Even fungi and bacteria are inhabited by viruses and are occasionally destroyed by them.
p. 84..5 *bacteria = microorganisms (living creatures so small it takes a microscope to see them)
- He thought that a wild strain of bacteria had invaded the cell culture.†
p. 184..8
- The wild bacteria consume the cell culture, eat it up, and make a variety of different smells in the air while they're growing, whereas viruses kill cells without releasing an odor.†
p. 184..9
- Jahrling guessed that the flask had been wiped out by a common soil bacterium called pseudomonas.†
p. 185..0
- They used to do that all the time in hospital labs with bacteria.†
p. 343..3
- It used to be standard procedure to sniff cultures in a lab —that was how you learned what bacteria smelled like, how you learned that some kinds smell like Welch's grape juice.†
p. 343..3
- At various places inside the monkey house, they set out patches of paper saturated with spores of a harmless bacterium known as Bacillus subtilis niger.†
p. 355..6
Definition:
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(bacteria) microorganisms (living creatures so small it takes a microscope to see them) that can both cause disease and be beneficial.
(Bacteria are different and larger than viruses.)editor's notes: A single bacteria is called a bacterium and consists of a single cell that reproduces by splitting. (This is unlike a virus that uses cells in the body to reproduce.)
Bacteria are found virtually everywhere. For example, there are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a milliliter of fresh water. Many bacteria reside on our skin and in our bodies. For example, bacteria in the stomach help animals digest food.