Superbug Lab

Build a bacterium part by part, swim it through the bloodstream with its flagellum, split it by binary fission and watch a colony explode, then treat an infection and find out how antibiotic resistance creates superbugs. Covers the structure of bacteria (cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, circular chromosome and plasmids), how they differ from plant and animal cells, Lactobacillus and Pneumococcus, and natural selection.