bacterium
IPA: bæktˈɪriʌm
noun
- (microbiology) A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
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Examples of "bacterium" in Sentences
- On second thought, a bacterium is a bacterium is a bacterium.
- The cholera bacterium is shaped like a comma with a tail (above).
- The bacterium is so destructive that it is common to cough up both mucus and blood.
- When a nonlysogenic bacterium is infected by a temperate phage, it will either undergo lysis or become lysogenic.
- Hence, even a simple bacterium is an "intentional agent", albeit one with a very low level of complexity and flexibility of intentionality.
- Sure, the bacterium was able to metabolize the carbohydrates once they got into the cell, but the fermentation was limited by the surface area of the substrate used.
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (German 1795-1876) - one of the most famous and prolific scientists during the nineteenth century, introduced the term bacterium in 1838.
- Blood fluid - or blood serum - from an individual who has been immunized with poisons from a certain bacterium, can, namely, when introduced into the organs of another individual, confer resistance upon him against the bacterium in question.
- Not disagreeing, since in this argument/discussion I presume no further than the roll of a reporter, but for the authors I previously named even the bacterium is evidence of this logical/ontological principle of order that we might legitimately call “God.”
- Indeed, for the author’s I named above, it goes further: not just the bacterium but the possibility of the bacterium is evidence of a kind of rational order in the univers that NS cannot account for since it necessarily presupposes that order for its own possibility of inquiry.
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