Week One
There are a vast number of bacteria species in the environment, the species in focus is Deinococcous. The interest in Dienococcous has come about because of its desirable characteristics. The Dienococcous species are the most radiation-resistant micro-organisms that have been discovered and have genes that encode cell cleaning systems that eliminate organic and inorganic cell toxins (Gerber, 2015). This demonstrates it capacity to persist under multiple stressors and the efficiency to repair DNA damage. There is still much to be learned about the species of Deinococcous, thus this project will be testing Deinococcous Aquaticus’s susceptibility to the antibiotic tetracycline. Deinococcous Aquaticus is a gram-negative bacterium, so it appears pink under a microscope after a gram stain (BacDive, 2023). Gram-negative describes the structure of the cell wall. It appears pink because the peptidoglycan cannot retain the crystal violet, the first dye added, because it is un...