And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

I was able to morph the culture into a non sporulating form.

Now after sporulation, the spores repel.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non sporulating form.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

And so we see a mushroom here sporulating.

Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells that are alive, but in suspended animation for as long as 250 million years.

After they sporulate, they do rot.

You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.

The good news, it's not cancer, it's not tuberculosis, it's not coccidioidomycosis or some obscure fungal infection.

And these are mineral deposits that are also made by bacteria.

At the end of 1987, the scope of the biological weapons work was further expanded and research into additional bacterial agents, such as Clostridium perfringens and fungal toxins, such as trichothecene mycotoxins, was carried out.

These are spores this is in their spores.

The fundamental forms of ferns followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

And the bacterium needs tryptophan one of the building blocks of proteins to trigger the cells' appearance.

You don't have to heat them up as hot as you would something you do pressure canning because bacterial spores can't grow in the acid.

The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agarikon mushroom.

So, when you think of odd life forms, when you think of what it takes to live, it turns out this is a very efficient life form, and they call it an archaea. Archaea means the ancient ones.

Analysis of those samples indicated that certain areas of the site did contain elevated levels of Bacillus anthracis spores.

Already what were thought to be bacteria for generations have been found to compose, instead, two great domains of microorganisms true bacteria and one celled organisms the archaea, which are closer than other bacteria to the eukaryota, the group that we belong to.

These long filaments that you see on the back of the crab are actually created by the product of that bacteria.

They either pop the bacterial membrane, they make the bacterium so it can't replicate its DNA.

Slide top were found to have the highest germ content, with more than 900,000 colony forming units per square centimetre (CFU sq) cm on average.

Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms bacteria, viruses and fungi.

And, after an initial cost of 60 bucks to buy the bacteria, which you'll never have to pay again, one cubic meter of bacterial sand would be about 11 dollars.

You look in his intestines. There are billions of bacteria.

What if I could stick this molecule, slap it onto a bacteria that was pathogenic to me, that had just invaded my lungs?

The bacterial genes express proteins that are toxic to corn boring insects, but that are harmless to birds, fish, and mammals, including humans. As the modified corn fends off insect pests, it also reduces the levels of the mold Fusarium, thereby reducing the levels of fumonisin.

Squeeze top bottles were next worse with 162,000 CFU sq cm, and screw top containers hosted just under 160,000 CFU sq cm.

This is now supposed to be my bacterial cell.

This is the bacterial Esperanto.

To take an example close to home there are over 500 species of bacteria now known friendly bacteria living symbiotically in your mouth and throat probably necessary to your health for holding off pathogenic bacteria.

Every life form on this planet every insect, every bacteria, every plant, every animal, every human, every politician is coded in that stuff.

But when the bacteria grow and double and they're all participating in making these molecules, the molecule the extracellular amount of that molecule increases in proportion to cell number.

And we know staph can do amazing things.

We see the result, the traces, if you like, of the Bacillus pasteurii being harnessed to sculpt the desert into these habitable environments.

The left hand part of the molecule is identical in every single species of bacteria.

And along comes pneumococcus or another bacteria, streptococcus and boom, they get a bacterial pneumonia.

And so we started to think if this really is about communication in bacteria, and it's about counting your neighbors, it's not enough to be able to only talk within your species.

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

What happens is, you pour Bacillus pasteurii onto a pile of sand, and it starts filling up the voids in between the grains.

BL This bacteria that we've been talking about turns out to be the most simplest form of life found.

So replacing the bacteria DNA with virus DNA turns the bacteria into a factory for making viruses that is, until it's so filled with viruses that it bursts.