Tag: bacteria

Bacteria Has Harnessed Frozen Water As Weapon

A bacteria called Pseudomonas syringae has the ability to use proteins in their outer membranes to help ice crystals form at warmer than normal temperatures which they, then, use to form frost and invade damaged plant tissue. After these bacteria die, many of these proteins move into the atmosphere where they can alter the weather…


How To Make Glowing Bacteria – Bacterial Genetics – Transformation

The bacterial transfer of genetic material requires either a small fragment of DNA or a plasmid. Plasmids are small DNA molecules that replicate on their own in the bacterial cell. They are used in recombinant DNA technology for many reasons. One reason why they are used is to produce large amounts of needed proteins such…