{"id":5410,"date":"2018-12-13T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2018-12-13T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:43:29","slug":"can-you-kill-a-bacteria-by-squashing-it-if-a-bacteria-falls-does-it-make-a-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/13\/can-you-kill-a-bacteria-by-squashing-it-if-a-bacteria-falls-does-it-make-a-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you kill a bacteria by squashing it? If a bacteria falls, does it make a sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5396\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5396\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-4-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Can you kill a bacteria by squashing it? If a bacteria falls, does it make a sound?\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-4-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-4-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aw121318-4.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you kill a bacteria by squashing it? If a bacteria falls, does it make a sound?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can squish bacteria, but it&#8217;s not easy. Bacteria are tiny (about 2 micrometers long, or 2\u00d710\u22126 meters), which means if you stepped on one even on a smooth floor, the microgrooves in the floor would be plenty big to protect them. If scientists aren&#8217;t careful, they do squish them with microscope slide glass or by stirring too long &amp; vigorously with a glass rod in a petri dish. Sturdy little guys, though: they populate the bottom of the Marianas Trench at pressures that would crush us instantly: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bacteria-marianas\">bit.ly\/bacteria-marianas<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know if they make a sound when they fall, but bacteria apparently do make noises: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bacteria-sounds\">bit.ly\/bacteria-sounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can squish bacteria, but it&#8217;s not easy. Bacteria are tiny (about 2 micrometers long, or 2\u00d710\u22126 meters), which means if you stepped on one even on a smooth floor, the microgrooves in the floor would be plenty big to protect them. If scientists aren&#8217;t careful, they do squish them with microscope slide glass or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/13\/can-you-kill-a-bacteria-by-squashing-it-if-a-bacteria-falls-does-it-make-a-sound\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can you kill a bacteria by squashing it? If a bacteria falls, does it make a sound?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}