Electrical Wires Made Of Bacteria?!

Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth.

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- Bacterium: a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.
- Electron: a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- Metabolism: the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Respiration: a process in living organisms involving the production of energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.

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Turrens, J. F. “Mitochondrial Formation of Reactive Oxygen Species.” The Journal of Physiology, vol. 552, no. 2, 15 Oct. 2003, pp. 335–344.

[danilooliveira]

they also bridge the gap between unicellularity and multicellularity.

[upsilonalpha]

"Electric snorkel" is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

[whoeveriamiam]

multicellular life without giving up the solo lifestyle

[DeusExValerate]

Hi, I actually work in a lab studying these! They’re super cool if a little frustrating to grow since they only like to grow in their native mud rather than in pure cultures like other heavily-researched bacteria. My research is mainly into how they grow and how they construct their conductive filaments.

[alexeecs]

Now that's a real electron transport chain

[bennetteidsness]

Hey! I remember these guys being mentioned in the Petri Dish video - how, because they require their food and water to be in different places, they don't grow properly in a way we can study in petri dishes. Neat to know we're learning more about them!

[enderyu]

2:00 Conclusion: Stick figure Cameron is much shorter than 1cm

[randomuser]

2:33 Glad to see the Insulindian Phasmid among the list of cryptids.

[Sciolist]

This is second video about these bacteria by this channel, previous one I think was about limitations of petri dish

[Jolfgard]

I mean, I genuinely didn't expect for there to be so many peperoni pizza deposits in the ground.

[joashthedoash]

"Ma! The TV's walking around again! Get the cable sanitizer"

[LFTRnow]

That was really interesting, even the "ad" at the end about the Center for Electromicrobiology (a field I never knew existed but not surprised it does).

[babilon]

I hope the cable bacteria doesn't infest my cables and doesn't bridge Live and Neutral.

[samwill]

They're better at cooperation than any group I've ever been in

[AI-Life-]

Absolutely love the way you explain things! You make even the most complex topics easy to understand. Big fan of your channel!

[spelunkerd]

Looks like a first step toward multicellularity.

[lollipop_uncertainty]

3:00 lesson of the day: plug random equipment into random things

[ecocodex]

"Conga line" or more like... "Cellular Centipede"

[crimsonraen]

So heckin' neat. Also, that is the most easy to understand way I've seen Oxidative Phosphorylation being shown.

[hedgehog]

I study at AU and I kinda wanna work with this because it sounds fascinating.