a colony of bacteria
There are many different types of bacteria.
Some bacteria can only live in anaerobic conditions.
Food must be heated to a high temperature to kill harmful bacteria.
Many sorts of bacteria are resistant to penicillin.
A discrete ability to tell time may facilitate the growth pattern of the desert bacterium.
Actin filament assembly generates the force that pushes the bacterium in the mammalian host cytoplasm forward.
The lesions caused by the activity of the scolytid create an entry site for secondary infection by bacteria and fungi.