• LillyPip@lemmy.caOP
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        13 days ago

        Can see my question that way.

        But I think I meant whether the lifecycle of a bacteria including being part of a human cellular colony.

        Like we are crucial to and perhaps important the reproductive phase of them.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      14 days ago

      Well, there are plenty of bacteria who form colonies, though I’m not sure if any do it as part of a stage of life. I’m not aware of any bacteria that have stages of life at all, like how insects have larval, pupal, etc. But bacteria do experience stages as a colony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth