How Long Do Things in Your Fridge Stay Good AFTER Their Expiration Dates? You know that awful feeling you get when you throw away bacon, just because somebody named Oscar printed numbers on the package saying it was expired? No? You've never thrown away bacon, under any circumstances? Good man.
Spirillum volutans with polar amphitrichous flagella. Spirillum volutans is a gram-negative, flagellated spirochete. The bacterium is found in freshwater. Volutin granules of polyphosphate can be seen. Brightfield. Magnification: 250x.
Rooftop moss (Dicranoweisia cirrhata) with capsules, each on the tip of a seta. Spores of mosses. Orthotrichum, a common genus forming tufts on tree and shrub branches in the Pacific Northwest. Leaves of the moss Syntrichia latifolia. The leaves are one cell thick. The brownish spots on the leaf surface are asexual reproductive bodies (gemmae).