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What does bacteria look like?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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They Look Like Little Worms,and they can reproduce in millions in heat.I recommend to wash your hands.

Whilst some do look like little worms, they all have distinct appearances, which enable them to be identified under a microscope. Also there are millions of different shapes and sizes. Some look like little sausages or Hot Dogs. Also some are spikey
Some look like little balls, and some like tiny cylindrical capsules, and still others look like little rods. Some even take the shape of cooked hot dogs with a little curve in their length. There are many more shapes, too, and the numbers of different bacteria are huge - many, many tens of thousands.

We're talking about things so small that they can just be seen with optical microscopes. We have to use electron microscopes to view them "up close" because they're so small. Use the links below to look at pictures and learn more.


Bacteria have different shapes round, rod and sprial. They are one cell, they have an outer coat, an inner membrane and cell parts inside with cytoplasm and strands of DNA. They might also have a flaggellum. they reproduce by fission that is dividing in half and are actually cloning themselves. They change and mutate, evolve, by DNA code changes. errors caused when DNA copies its self, or DNA breaks, or crossing over, that's when two pieces of DNA switch parts.

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Eubacterias are less complex science they have no nucleious!

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Microscopic, uni-cellular, without a cell nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles.

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Some archaea look like little rods or tiny balls, and some even get around like bacteria, using long hair.

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