Meet Our Nitrogen-Breathing Bacterial Relative

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Oxygen is pretty great stuff, but this recently discovered organism couldn’t care less about oxygen. It breathes nitrogen and may offer a window into how the types of cells in OUR bodies may have evolved billions of years ago. Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Computational Biology course. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Alisa Sherbow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12732534/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891584918324006 https://news.mit.edu/2016/oxygen-first-appearance-earth-atmosphere-0513 https://www.mpg.de/16524858/new-form-of-symbiosis-discovered ht

Published 2021-05-31 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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