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All of the insects in the colony are specialists in what they do ... Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University Biofilms form when groups of bacteria cover themselves in a sticky mixture of sugars, protein, ...

However, when grown on agar in a Petri dish, each individual cell divides multiple times to form a visible colony. If we count the number of individual colonies of bacteria on the plates ...

Why Do the Bacteria Form These Cables ... Additional authors on the paper, "Morphogenesis of bacterial colonies in polymeric environments," are Corey A. Stevens, Gerardo Cárcamo-Oyarce, and ...

Over the next few sessions in lab you will be learning how to isolate bacterial colonies into individual species. This allows for the creation of a pure culture, a culture of bacteria containing only ...

Bacteria can form multicellular biofilms, which are glued together by an extracellular matrix. Wrinkles in the film—large enough to see with the naked eye—help to provide protection from penetration ...