Bacteria knowledge
Some need oxygen, other do not
The word metabolism refers to those biochemical reactions that are vital for life and continuously occur inside the cells of each living being. Some of these reactions can only occur if there is oxygen. Some others, instead, do not need it. Aerobic bacteria are those bacteria that, like animals, “breathe oxygen”. Anaerobic bacteria are those bacteria that can live in an environment without this gas. Bacterial reproduction is asexual: it occurs by fission and not through the exchange of genetic material between two individuals of a different sex. Each bacterial cell divides itself to originate two identical cells that, in their turn, divide themselves into two other identical cells, and so on. A single cell is able to generate, in a short time, colonies of bacteria that are be made up of millions of cells.
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