• Question: What is the meaning of bacteria

    Asked by gouldie to Rosie on 11 Mar 2014.
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      Rosie Coates answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      A man called Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg used the word bacteria in 1838. It comes from the Greek word bakteria which means “little rod” and is a very good description of what Christian was looking at down a microscope at the time.

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