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Does anyone know what kind of microbe this is? Sidenote: for a second I read "emoji" as plural, and envisioned a handful of different microbes (e-coli, amoeba,
by schiffern 9y ago
Does anyone know what kind of microbe this is?
Sidenote: for a second I read "emoji" as plural, and envisioned a handful of different microbes (e-coli, amoeba, cyanobacteria, etc). I got excited that finally, 400 years after microbes were revealed to us, USB microscopes had so democratized the technology that the Unicode Consortium saw fit to familiarize us with our tiny fellow inhabitants of Earth, our distant cousins on the tree of life.
Hey, I can dream can't I? ;)
- grenoire 9y agoMaybe bacterial Fitzgerald next?
- cmyr 9y agoFitzpatrick? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale)
- anateus 9y agoIt looks like a bacteria of some sort without a flaggelum, maybe gram positive. If I had to bet, I'd bet on some kind of lactobacillus :)
- giarc 9y agoRod shaped bacterium are hardly ever Gram positive. Gram positive are defined by their thick layer of peptidoglycan. Because it is a thick, strong structure, it naturally sticks to round shapes. Gram negatives also have a layer of peptidoglycan, but much thinner. Therefore they can form rods that have bends and straight sections as they are not constrained by their thick structure.
- rubatuga 9y agoI see cilia and organelles, so this is a eukaryotic microbe, maybe Protozoa?
- outworlder 9y agoThey should have standardized the microbial "features" instead, so we could build our own. With unicode, you can use "combining characters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character . We would be able to do "bacteria + flagellum" or similar :)