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Dried out bacteria can make the planet Mars habitable

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Microbes are full of amazing qualities they can survive in extreme cold, extremely hot temperature, highly alkaline, highly acidic conditions, and air and in deep sea even in radioactive environment. It is well known fact that there are bacteria, survive in highly alkaline environment like salt lakes. Recent studies suggest that they also have an ability to completely dry out almost like a dead being and can revive again when find smallest amount of water. Halomonas bacteria have similar characteristics. Halomonas bacteria in its desiccated form was isolated from Washington’s Hot Lake. It is found out that completely dried out bacteria revived again after absorbing humidity in jar. According to astrobiologist Mark Schneegurt, of Wichita State University in Kansas these findings help to discover life on other planets like Mars and it will also help us to know if life from Earth can thrive on other planets or not. Salt loving bacteria have been detected in cleaned room of NA
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Plasm and other compound words of -plasm

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The word plasm come from Greek word plasma which means ‘to shape’. In medical science Plasm can be used as prefix or suffix e.g. plasma membrane and protoplasm respectively. –plasm, with the meaning of “living substance” or “substance of cell” used to form compound words. So here are few compound words where –plasm used as suffix. Axoplasm Cytoplasm Deutoplasm Ectoplasm Endoplasm Hyaloplasm Mitoplasm Neoplasm Nucleoplasm Periplasm Protoplasm Sarcoplasm Tonoplasm Being learners sometimes we may confused with them. So here are the meaning of some of these terms. Cytoplasm : It is gel like substance within a cell enclosed by cell membrane. Cytoplasm includes all material inside the cell but outside the nucleus, in other words cell nucleus is not the part of the cytoplasm.  . Cytoplasm is colorless made up of 80% water, proteins, salts and minerals. Most of the cellular activities take place in cyt
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General overview of Amoeba

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Biological warfare agents history and related incidents

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overview: Aflatoxin

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Typhoid Mary: Carrier of Salmonella typhi

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Typhoid Mary: Carrier of Salmonella typhi In 1869 girl named Mary Mallon born in Ireland. Mary emigrated to US in 1884, started working as a domestic help to the wealthy families and later became a cook. Mary was a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi bacteria which is responsible for typhoid fever and killed many people unknowingly, later she stigmatized as 'Typhoid Mary'. Before going to further details about 'typhoid Mary' first know what is typhoid fever. What is Typhoid fever Typhoid fever is a serious enteric fever caused by bacterium,  Salmonella enterica, serovar typhi   also known as  Salmonella typhi . It is a gram negative, unicellular, motile (flagella present all around the cell),  facultative aerobes and non spore forming bacterium belongs to Enterobacteriaceae family. Salmonella typhi under scanning electronic microscope Salmonella typhi once enter into the body through mouth reach to intestinal cells and infect them, the
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