Bacteria die or not? Is it true that bacteria is Immortal?

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Tivkaa Joseph Amande

Bacteria are not immortal. They can be killed. However, bacteria are ubiquitous. They have evolved to colonized habitats that most species can't,

Christian Q. Scheckhuber

Here you can find an interesting article on bacterial ageing by Thomas Nyström (Göteborg University, Sweden):

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.0030224

Best regards!

Jyoti S

Dear Kunal ..

Everything in this world dies... .. and I agree with Christian Scheckhuber...and with these lines of the referred article... because of binary fission of bacteria it has been assumed to proceed with a nonconservative dispersion of both undamaged and damaged constituents, such that there are no adult forms of bacterial cells and the bacterial population is not age structured..

Richard Snyder

Ackermann M1, Stearns SC, Jenal U. Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science. 2003 Jun 20;300(5627):1920.

Stewart et al., 2005. PLoS Biology 3:295

and the article listed above.

Dipak Paul

Bacteria are not immortal !!

Eugene Levich

dont know really. its confusing.