Professor Blue

Not enough gas for the fam­ily car?  Let’s grow some!

going to make the best mush­rooms ever

Sci­en­tists are look­ing to a cer­tain ant from the for­est for instruc­tion on how to use bac­te­ria to make bio­fuel.  They think that if humans were a lit­tle more like ants we might pos­si­bly be able to grow our way out of oil short­ages and the high prices.

Leaf­cut­ter ants haul leaves that drop to the ground back to their farms.  Their fungi farms.  They use these leaves to grow a cer­tain fun­gus for din­ner.  What sci­en­tists have recently dis­cov­ered was that the ants also use bac­te­ria to either grow the fungi along with the leaves, or pos­si­bly use as a diges­tive aid.  They’re not sure yet.

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Germs, some­times known as Bac­te­ria, are alive, but you can’t see them.  Bac­te­ria are groups of tiny organ­isms that have only one cell.  They are on the ground, in the air, on your shoelaces, the han­dle to the refrig­er­a­tor, the tip of your nose.  They are all around us.

Some bac­te­ria can cause dis­eases but not all of them.  Humans actu­ally need some kinds of bac­te­ria to live!

To learn more about Germs go to this website:

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/germs.html

To hear the lat­est Bac­te­ria dance song, sweep­ing across…my computer…click on the You Tuber video below.  I like to think of the song as what Germs would sound like if they could sing.

Update: Check out these details on bacteria