We can't distinguish bacteria with the naked eye, but some of the characteristics we care about are like the most amazing bacteria in the world - electro-eating bacteria, whose food is electricity! More precisely, it's electronic, but regardless, it's changing our understanding of bacteria yet again. We need to know that electrons are almost everywhere, and if this skill is used by humans, it will truly be a fairy.
Because bacteria are single-celled microorganisms and cannot be seen with the naked eye, they need to be observed with a microscope. There are bacteria unlike any other living thing on earth. The bacteria live on the purest form of energy -- electrons. They eat and breathe electrons. Therefore, it is called electro-eating bacteria, also known as microbial nanowires.
Bacteria come in different shapes and sizes. A few years ago, biologists discovered that some bacteria that feed on electricity grow hair-like filaments that, like wires, carry electrons back and forth between the cell and the environment. They call the electrobacteria "microbial nanowires." Currently, there are two types of electricity-eating bacteria: Shiwanella and Geobacter. They can use a little electrohydraulic to attract more electrons from rocks and deep sea mud. The researchers grew bacteria on the battery's electrodes and found that, in essence, the bacteria eat and discharge electricity.
One shouldn't be too surprised by this electricity-eating bacterium, because life is a flow of electrons. "You eat sugar, you eat too many electrons, you breathe oxygen, and you expel the excess electrons," says Nelson. Our cells break down the sugar, and the electrons go through a complex series of chemical reactions that eventually combine with the Oxygen that lacks electrons binds. During this process, cells synthesize ATP. ATP is the molecule that stores energy in almost all life.
