The story for kids
This is E. coli, a bacterium that lives in our tummy, in our intestines, and it mostly helps us. It swims with its long little tail, which spins like a propeller. It eats sugar, and when it's full, it stretches and splits in two. When things are just right, that happens about every twenty minutes.
Facts
- This bacterium lives in our gut and mostly helps us.
- It swims with a whip-like tail that spins like a propeller.
- When it has eaten enough, it stretches and splits in two, about every 20 minutes.
Numbers
- Size
- ~0.002 mm
- Lives in
- In our gut
- Eats
- Sugar
- Reproduces
- Splits in two