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Bacteria
SciShow Tangents
The Origins of Bacteria
With bacteria, it's just two new cells and they're both the daughter cell. So do they get older or like, how do they die? When you divide, how do you know how old you are? Does that make sense? Yeah, so it's not immortality necessarily because colonies grow and then you can destroy a bunch of them. There is a chunk of the first bacterium to ever exist in every bacteria. It seems a little incestuous, but it's biologically fine. Just cognitively helps us sing.
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