Word: bacterium
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What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural...
...several years, Professor Evgeni Talalayev, chief of microbiology at Irkutsk University, collected caterpillars that had died naturally. Eventually he isolated one cause of death: a virulent bacterium, which he used to infect and kill large numbers of caterpillars. He then dried their bodies and ground them to powder...
...School and became the breadwinner. She worked in a lab for $600 a year, "feeling darned lucky because at that price they had so little string on me." In two years she used her freedom for pioneer work on microbial genetics, and found her research specialty -a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens, whose color makes it easy to trace...
...building experience." The widow of Yale Pathologist Henry Bunting, she had a distinguished teaching career at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley and Yale. In 1955 she became dean of Rutgers University's Douglass College for women, carried on radiation research for the Atomic Energy Commission. Her specialty: a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens ("I'm quite sure the Miracle of the Bleeding Host, which took place in medieval churches, was serratia"). She plans to set up her own lab at Radcliffe, teach a freshman seminar...
...nuclei of reproductive cells are mere blobs of protoplasm, apparently much alike. But each of them contains a genetic "instruction code" that tells it how to develop into a particular sort of creature, ranging from a bacterium to a man. In the case of higher animals, the cell's instructions are carried by long, coiled-up molecules of DXA (deoxyribonucleic acid). In the instance of some viruses, which are the simplest of organisms, the code is found in RNA (ribonucleic acid), which is less complicated...