Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Individual Microscope Slide

Captions are on! Click CC at bottom right to turn off. Get updates from @AmoebaSisters on Twitter and Facebook! I’ll never forget a circular red spot I developed on my arm when I was in elementary school. It left a lasting memory in my mind, because it was something called ringworm and, with my active imagination, I thought I was now infected a ring-shaped worm. I learned you’ve got to be careful about names, because ringworm isn’t caused by a worm at all. It’s actually a fungus which it turns out is pretty common and can be carried by many things like pets or soil. And since up to that point, I was used to antibiotics as a way to treat infections, I assumed I’d be given antibiotics. But I wasn’t. I was given an antifungal cream instead, and it went away. So it made me wonder – what made it different from the bacteria that had made me sick in the past? Why wasn’t I given antibiotics? We