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Endospores

When food runs out, a few Gram-positive bacteria do not die. They wall a copy of themselves inside a near-indestructible capsule and wait. That capsule lives through boiling, drying, alcohol and years of time. Step through how a spore is built. Then run a kill test and see which treatments actually work.

Vegetative cellstep 1 of 8

Sporulation, stage by stage
Step through formation, then tap a lit armor layer.

Kill testlive model

Survivors over treatment time
5 min
Log drop
0
Still alive
100 M
Result
not sterile

Sporulationpress Next to begin
Resistance armor0%