Today in biology, we learned about prokaryotic cells. Prokaryotic cells are bacteria. Prokaryotic cells are unicellular and lack a nucleus. Thus, they reproduce asexually. And they reproduce fast. They attach themselves to any surface that they can, and reproduce themselves all over it.
Thus, the five second rule has just flown out the window.
If you drop your food on the ground, bacteria are multiplying like rabbits the moment it makes contact. By the time you can pick it up, there will be hundreds of little squirmy unicellular organisms all over it. And if you dare eat that food, you had better hope your immune system is awesome, because those little guys are going to swim around inside of you.
This genuinely upset me. I drop things all of the time; I’m a really clumsy girl. And now everything that I drop is officially a breeding ground. Well, it always has been, but now I know about it. And now I’m grossed out. I guess this is just one of those, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you,” situations, because I’ve survived through it thus far without knowing it, but now the fear just might kill me.
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