>>10860517>explain morphologyLiterally the shape. Are they spherical (coccus)? Are they cylindrical (bacillus/coliform)?
>explain clusteringIn a colony, do they just dogpile onto a random mass? Or do they form structures like fine lines or grapevine-like structures?
>explain what little thing food isWhat substratum are you feeding your microorganisms for them to grow?
>explain how little things breatheEvery living being breathes, though not necessarily oxygen. Microorganisms can be classified based on their interaction with oxygen in air: aerobic (needs O2), anaerobic (poisoned by O2), facultative anaerobic (doesn't need O2 but grows better when its available) and microaerophiles (needs O2 in concentrations smaller than 20% since this is toxic to them).
Organisms breathe by processing glucose in the Krebs cycle (turning NAD+ and ADP into NADH and ATP) and using O2 as an electron acceptor at the end of the oxidative phosphorilation chain. Prokaryotes do this through their cell membrane while Eukaryotes use their mitochondria, just like you.
>explain gram staining that sounds funIts a couple of dyes that can tell you whether a bacterium has one cell wall or two. There are two major groups regarding cell wall.
