10 AUG 2011 by ideonexus

 The Discovery of Bacteria Sexes

I was preoccupied with sex, but not of a type that needed encouragement. The mating habits of bacteria were admittedly a unique conversation pieceçabsolutely no one in his and Odile's social circle would guess bacteria had sex lives. On the other hand, working out how they did it was best left to minor minds. Rumors of male and female bacteria were floating about at Royaumont, but not until early in September, when I attended a small meeting on microbial genetics at Pallanza, did I get the f...
Folksonomies: history science sex mating
Folksonomies: history science sex mating
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Watson describes the early discover that bacteria exchange genes, which is mistaken for bacterial sex.