Bacterial cell structure & function: Inclusions

Fun Facts

-Bacteria have flourished on earth for over three billion years!

-Bacteria adapt properties allowing them to present a wide array of coloring.

-A genophore of a true organism can be as small as 580,073 base pairs (Mycoplasma genitalium).

-Ribosome comes from ribonucleic acid and "Greek: soma (meaning body)".

-There are an estimated 75 to 100 trillion cells in the human body. It is believed by scientists that there are more bacteria in your body than the number of cells in your body.

-Scientists estimate that the total mass of the Earth's bacteria out weighs allof the plants and animals and all other living things combined.

-Soap and water are more effective at killing germs than antibacterial hand sanitizers.

-A single pancreas cell can synthesize 5 million molecules of protein per minute.

-If a nuclear war wiped out civilization most of the Earth's bacteria wouldn't be affected.

-Ribosomes that are from bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes have significantly different in its structure and it’s RNA.

-Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Inclusions

Written By: Kiat Yi
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Cell Inclusions are aggregates of various compounds that are normally involved in storing energy reserves or building blocks for the cell. That means that they are made up of a combination of cell compounds, mainly proteins, and besides being the building blocks of the cell, they also store the cell’s excess energy for future use.

(Metachromatic granules)

Cell inclusions are small, non-living intracellular (that means “inside the cell”) particles, usually represented as a form of stored food, and are not immediately vital to life processes. They also typically represent sites of viral multiplication in a bacterium or a eukaryotic cell and usually consist of viral capsid proteins (the protein shell of a virus).