Rope Micrograph (IMAGE)

Penn State

Rope Micrograph

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A micrograph of rope shows DNA, bacteria and archaea. Blue filaments are DNA strands. Green fluorescent dyed bactera, red to pink archaea. fluorescent probes label ribosomes, which are only visible when the cells are metabolizing.

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Penn State

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