SciShow: Why Bacteria Don't Outweigh the Earth

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Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Check out “The Idea” music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUyT94aGmbc. Given just a little time, bacteria could outgrow earth, so what's stopping them? Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15646400/ https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.274.16.10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-011-3557-z https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2044 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827094/ https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12090568 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29788125/ https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0941-1 https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12080474 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916617117 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01895 Images https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/3d-rendered-video-with-bacteria-b8fdzhkjjzj7rz7wf7 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E_coli_at_10000x,_original.jpg


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