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The minute we think of bacteria we
see little organisms floating on a dish with all kinds of shapes and sized, big
little, spiky and non-spiky. For me I particularly see little organisms like
the ones from the movie evolution, organisms going from worm like creatures to
weird looking dog things. However what if those organisms could socialize, the
thought of tiny little microorganisms using antibiotics and defenses at a type
of chemical warfare. The article does that, introducing the concept of little
organisms have massive battlefields. After each complete thought it
introduction of an idea they backed it up immediately with thoughts from a
prestigious professional.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125338
They
also do a nice way of introducing their studies done, explaining what their
results were when they paired specific microorganisms, the results were as
predicted the organisms would create a battlefield attacking other competition
with everything they possibly got. The interesting key fact that they mentioned
was the microorganisms did not attack their same team members or other
organisms like them. They developed a way to communicate with each other in such
a way for us to realize how that type of behavior the ones we display today in
warfare originated. How different are we from the bacteria that invaded us, how
truly different over millennia’s of evolution are we when we see our behavior
in the organisms we examine.
Article :http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=125338
This article was really interesting. I have also wondered if bacteria and other microorganisms had a way to communicate, or if they just completely did their own thing. To find out that they actually do have a way of communicating is really quite fascinating. Whenever I thought of bacteria and other microbes I always assumed they were sort of programed to do simple tasks, and that was the only thing that they were able to do, but now that I have learned that the microbes can socialize and have a way to communicate it has changed my perspective on microbes. Also the fact that these bacteria can have battles with other bacteria is really cool. I wonder how the bacteria know what other bacteria to attack, and which bacteria are the same as them and not attack them. Bacteria and humans have that in common which makes bacteria that much more interesting.
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