Pokemon aren't the only creatures that Evolve

Next time you think of germs or bacteria as being so simple, think again. For many years, scientist have believed that only complex organism have the capability of going through evolution. A blog titled "Gene Relocation is Key to Most Evolutionary Change in Bacteria" shows that this is not necessarily true. The author uses a new study, published by the University of Maryland and the Institut Pasteur to help prove her statement.

Environments are always changing and creatures have to learn adapt to these new environments otherwise they die out. What living organism can be found in almost any environment…BACTERIA. That’s right, run and hide….well wait you can’t hide. That’s because they are everywhere ranging from incredibly cold to extremely hot. Do you know what makes these little boogers be able to do this? If you said gene duplication within the same organism, your wrong; if you guessed evolution then you are correct. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is not the typical evolution though, bacteria help each other evolve and be resistant by passing on genes to each other. This is called horizontal gene transfer. You don’t believe that this is evolution? Well, how would you survive if humans never learned how to communicate with each other and taught each other how to deal with certain problems. Maybe humans are not as unique as what we like to think. Bacteria has learned to adapt to so many different environments by sharing information with each other and then passing that to their “offspring”. If the bacteria did not receive help from other bacteria then it died. This, in a sense, is a form of natural selection and natural selection is a part of evolution. So, you better be nice to those microbes under your foot and on your hands because who knows, maybe they will evolve and try spaying you with bleach.

As a reflection of this article, I caught the attention of the readers by first having that picture (which, in my opinion was funny). I then kept the readers involved by asking them questions and making them think. The use of the questions also helped to provide mental images for the readers. The sentence structure and paragraphs flowed pretty nicely, in my opinion and the blog as a whole seemed to keep flowing.