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It's great.
It's a very dynamic, ever evolving chemical thing.
And so you will get some information, but you're not going to get much unless you know where to look because it is responding to the environment.
So bacteria is not primitive.
We should be very grateful to bacteria.
First of all, they are our great, great ancestors.
I like this quote by Douglas Adams.
Humans don't like their ancestors.
They rarely invite them over for dinner.
Yeah.
Right?
But bacteria is in your dinner.
Bacteria is in your gut.
Bacteria is helping you along the way.
So we do invite them for dinner.
Well, they get themselves invited in a way.
And they're definitely older and definitely very sophisticated, very resilient than anything else.
As someone working as a bacteriologist, I feel like I need to...
defend them in this case because they don't get much shout out when we think about life.
We study a variety of different bacteria depending on the questions that we ask.