These are grown in an incubator and the results are shown. Jon explains how bacteria grow and reproduce by binary fission. Students could make models of bacterial cells out of balloons.

As bacteria reproduce by binary fission, the number of bacteria with this mutation can increase very quickly. The non-resistant bacteria are destroyed by the antibiotics, which removes competition.

They can also survive in soil. When bacteria have glucose to use as energy, they can reproduce during a process known as ...

Prokaryotic cells, which include bacteria, undergo a type of cell division known as binary fission. This process involves replication of the cell's chromosomes, segregation of the copied DNA ...