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12: DIVISION

In their infectious form, these brain-eating amoebae can divide without breaking up their nuclear membrane, in a process called promitosis.

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The Bacteria Collection: Clostridium tetani (2/8) ☄️

This was day 6 of the list. Prompt: Sporulation.

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12 - Wall!

The cell wall protects a bacterium and is mostly responsible for its shape. Penicillin is an antibiotic that interferes with cell wall construction enzymes and causes the cell to lyse.

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DAY 12 // WALL
Who doesn’t love a good ol’ Gram stain?

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11 - Streaking!

When bacteria are treated with lysozyme and penicillin, they can go into an L-form state in which they don’t have a cell wall.

This is a cheap joke and I know it but I could not help myself. I giggled while making it.

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10: DEFENCE

As their defence, Bordetalla pertussis attacks our immune defences in the lungs, so the airways don’t produce mucus. This causes the coughs to make a characteristic whooping sound

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I'm not managing to catch up with but I'm going to throw previously created piece for to support lovely everyone is doing 💙
Day 10 is for 'defense' and what better describes it than CRISPR-Cas immunity stages🎨

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Inktober/Microber 2021 Day 9 Niche 👻🦠
A niche defines how a species interacts with its environment. E. g., some bacteria can tolerate specific agents harmful to other species giving them an advantage in this niche.

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day 8 - Quorum sensing

QS is a communication process that allows bacteria to regulate gene expression according to cell density.

Did you ever use a tin can telephone? I did once, it was explained and exposed in a museum and that was cool!

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DAY 9 // NICHE
I’ll admit this was a hard one, but what better ecological/microbial niche than roots? 🌱
A symbiosis where Rhizobium colonise legume root nodules, producing ammonium to be used by the plant

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I am not organised enough to be posting every day
First set of illustrations for

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I haven't been drawing a lot lately, so here's a scifi phage illustration I made a while ago!

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2021-10-08

There is something so nice about the rainbow colors stamping :) and Phages love it too 😉

prompt: phage

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Day 6 - Phage!
It’s a happy fairylight phage because it’s getting darker outside 🎃

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Day 6 - Sporulation!

Some species of bacteria form spores that can remain dormant for a long time and germinate when conditions are favourable. This is a little Streptomyces Tangela that's making some Streptomyces style spore chains!

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The Bacteria Collection: Escherichia coli 💥 (1/8)

Inktober created a great opportunity to make a project that has been on the back of my mind. This collection will be a series of 8 illustrations inspired by prompts from list.

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On to day 5 of 🦠🖌️ For todays prompt Lysis 🦠

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DAY 5 // LYSIS
Poor little bug is dealing with a nasty case of lytic phage.

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5: LYSIS.

To spread, viruses (ABCDEFG…) explode their host cells ('cell lysis') to leave them because they don’t need host membranes to make new virions.

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