62 reactions | These are sulfur bacteria Beggiatoa magnified 1000x,...

This is a Phacus tortus, a wonderful looking single-celled organism magnified 1000 times! It's literally better looking than I am. I might be smarter but still, good that we don't compete. 😂 . So this hotshot uses sunlight to produce sugar for itself and occasionally eats some other things in the environment. It can sense the light source with photosensitive proteins under the red spot on the cell. It has a whip like flagellum, it beats the flagellum to move in the water to reach suitable place

Almost nine years ago, I checked a water sample under the microscope and saw so many little things zooming back and forth, like in this clip. When I asked my professor what they were, he said they were bacteria. I never thought bacteria could move—let alone move this fast. I asked a few times throughout the class, and he very kindly confirmed each time that I was looking at bacteria, nothing else. . In a drop of water, you can see many branches of the tree of life: bacteria, archaea, fungi, anim