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http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/09/15/rice_study_examines_how_bacteria_acquire_immunity.html

This article is about how bacteria is immune to disease. Single cell organisms have the ability acquire their own immune systems. CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. CRISPR can be both inherited and and a programmable system. Bacteria is attacked by viruses called phages and the bacteria can copy the DNA or RNA of a phage and deflect it.

I think this article is interesting because i didn't think that bacteria had an immune system. I did not know that it could be diseased either. I thought that bacteria was somewhat of a virus. But, i liked the article because i learned something from it.