answersLogoWhite

0

How bacteria's grow?

User Avatar

Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/26/2022

When people refer to bacteria growth it is actually about the amount of bacterium in a colony rather than the actual size of an individual bacterium increasing. Bacterium reproduce asexually through binary fission. This is when they basically just make a copy of their chromosome and then split. They reproduce sexually through conjunction. This is when they attach to one another using their pili, which are short hairlike structures on the outside of the cell. Through the pili they transfer a copy of a portion of their DNA. They then take on traits of the other cell. This helps to explain how bacterium can pass on drug resistance to one another.Bacteria is every were and you can get sick if you don't dust daily.

User Avatar

Jimmy Mueller

Lvl 13
3y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions