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when you light up cuz you’re working with the right friends.–“Aliivibrio fischeri is a bioluminescent bacterium that lives as a symbiont in the light-producing organ of squid and certain fish. When freeliving, the bacteria… do not give off light…” However, when working with a friend, “each cell is induced to produce the enzyme luciferase, whichContinue reading “Somatic Lessons from Plants + Animals. 3”