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Monday, 4 August 2014

Etymology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria

The word bacteria is the plural of the New Latin bacterium, which is the latinisation of the Greek βακτήριον (bakterion),the diminutive of βακτηρία (bakteria), meaning "staff, cane",because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped.

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