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Conan the Bacterium
An anonymous reader writes "The world's toughest organism, able to withstand thousands of time more radiation than a human, is reported by the Weizmann Institute to have its secret to survival as a tightly packed DNA ring. Their Science article indicates that radiation-induced breakages are held tightly packed rather than floating off into the intracellular fluid. The bacteria,Deinococcus radiodurans, was discovered decades ago in canned food that was sterilized using radiation. Red patches appeared in the cans - colonies of the bacterium - setting off questions as to how it could have survived."
They can have a sample of the chlorox resistant mildew in my shower. I think its started feeding on the bleach, rather than being harmed by it.
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... that this stuff doesn't get too close to my homebrew.
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
The plural of "bacteria" is actually not "bacterium," but rather "bacterii" (analogous to "virii").
Bullshitii
Bacteria is the plural of bacterium.
...inject it into Keith Ritchards and see if it survives!