Prokaryotes Resources

This is a lecture on bacteria that covers many of the topics from this section.

Short video about antibiotic overuse and antimicrobial resistance.

This is a video of myxobacteria growing fruiting bodies.

In this TED talk, biologist Paul Ewald discusses why pathogens are pathogens and how we might tame them.

Here’s a song about sporulating.

Um, here’s an opera about dental bacteria performed at Harvard in 2010. Skip ahead to 54:30 for the first act.

Here’s a rap song about bacteria. We told you it got sillier as we went along.

This video shows how quickly bacteria can divide, through song.

Here is a radio story about the obese and lean mice with different bacteria inside them. Highly recommended.

This second radio story discusses bioengineering, beginning with the design of minty-fresh E. coli.

Using this virtual lab, you can identify bacterial strains using DNA barcoding techniques.

This gallery has some amazing pictures of bacteria making patterns: