summary of my daily life experiences within the week and their link to how bacteria uses different strategies to divide and survive under stress
Following is a summary of my daily life experiences within the week and their link to how bacteria uses different strategies to divide and survive under stress. Through an example of how bacteria adapt in different environments, a connection is created with typical human struggle to access, food, water, shelter, mates, among other factors.
On day one, a comparison between the life survival tactics of cyanobacteria is compared to human life. Ideal conditions bacteria reproduce asexually through binary fission, where a mature one divides into two equal halves. However, in real life, there are limited resources and competition for the resources making bacteria mutate by developing resistant genes so that it can survive. Cyanobacteria is chemosynthetic bacteria, which means that it synthesizes its own food from simple chemicals. In typical light, it shortens and divides through binary fission producing two identical daughter cells while in dim light, it elongates then splits, producing two daughter cells that are of different lengths. Min system is the point in bacteria that allows for the binary fission to produce the two daughter cells. Many researchers have attempted to explain this occurrence differently with some such as Rust and Yi attributing it as a mechanism to fit in the ecosystem with limited resources, a tool for survival for the fittest so that it does not become extinct (Liao & Rust, 2018). Similarly, human beings can resort to living on one meal per day when food becomes a limiting resource. It was realized that though human beings are multicellular, their basic genetic structure is similar to that of lower organisms (Cyanobacteria during stress recovery. Cell systems. P. 472)).