It's a dramatic situation for the bacterial cells, which can also be seen ... This is reflected in the bacteria changing shape. Usually, E. coli bacteria are rod-shaped, but when exposed to ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...

Some phages follow a lytic life cycle where they inject their DNA into the host cell ... E. coli. In fact, phage counts decreased. This is because the heat used in pasteurization changes the shape ...