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I Am a Streptococcus Essay

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I am a streptococcus. I am known as a harmful bacterium because I am a harmful bacterium. A French biologist known as Louis Pasteur discovered me in 1880. When he discovered me, he called me “microbe septicemique du salive.” In the same year in the United States, biologist George Miller Sternberg also discovered me and named me “Micrococcus pasteuri.” In 1974, my name was changed to streptococcus.
Once, a man known as Frank Griffith conducted an experiment with me. He formed a hypothesis that bacteria can transfer DNA through each other. A hypothesis is an educated guess that may be the answer to a scientific question. Doing an experiment tested the hypothesis and only one variable was changed at a time. The variable that is changed is …show more content…

Of all the different levels of life, which in order are atoms, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism, population, ecosystem, and the biosphere, I am just a cell. The reason why I am a cell is because I am the basic unit of structure and function, am able to produce other forms of me asexually, and all living things are composed of me, or cells similar or very different from me. When I say I am tiny, I mean that I am tiny. I am only about 0.5-1.0 micrometer long. I was measured using the metric system, a type of measuring that scientists use to measure length, mass, volume, and temperature. Many scientists use this because the metric system is based on multiples of ten and is easy to use.
I am known as a prokaryote. All bacteria are prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are a type of cell that lacks a nucleus. They are very small and basic. Eukaryotes, my opposite, contain nuclei and are much larger and more complex than me. I also lack many other organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum, which modifies some proteins, and the Golgi apparatus, which combines proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates together and then sends them out to the cell with the help of enzymes. Enzymes are types of protein in living

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