Microbiology

🦠Spirochetes

Spirochaetes

Distinctive spiral-shaped bacteria with internal flagella that rotate the cell like a corkscrew.

💡Treponema pallidum (syphilis) still cannot be grown in a lab culture despite over a century of trying.

3 microbes

Can you guess microbes from their family tree?

GuessKin Microbiology is a daily taxonomy puzzle — Wordle meets the tree of life.