Online Coloring: Bacteria
Online Coloring: Bacteria

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Cartoonish, brightly colored text reading "Viruses" inside of an outlined, irregular oval.
Cartoonish, brightly colored text reading "Protists" inside of an outlined, irregular oval.

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Cartoonish, brightly colored text reading "Viruses" inside of an outlined, irregular oval.
Cartoonish, brightly colored text reading "Protists" inside of an outlined, irregular oval.

There are six different kinds of microbes in this scene.
Five are identified below. Can you find the mystery microbe?

Line drawing of a curved, worm-like line inside of a larger circle, representing a spirochete microbe.

spirochete

Line drawing of four long oval shapes attached in a vertical line, inside of a larger circle, representing a Streptobacilli microbe.

Streptobacilli

Line drawing of four overlapping circles inside of a larger circle, representing Staphylococci microbes.

Staphylococci

Line drawing of an irregular shape spiked at both ends inside of a larger circle, representing a verrucomicrobia microbe.

verrucomicrobia

Line drawing of a long, oval shape with thirteen curved lines emerging from all ends of the oval, inside of a larger circle, representing a Bacillus microbe.

Bacillus

mystery microbe

Vibrio

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Image Credits:

bacteria illustration, by Jake MacDonald.