Is bacteria male or female?

Question

Is bacteria male or female?

Answer 1

both :P

Answer 2

Neither, they don't have sexes. . .

Answer 3

It's asexual, meaning it's neither.. bacteria splits its cells and makes a double of itself.  It can do that by itself without any other bacteria around.

Answer 4

Bacteria are asexual, reproducing by a process called binary fission, rather than sexual reproduction.  There are however, bacteria (E. coli, in particular) that have the ability to grow a structure called an F pilus that can attach to a related bacteria and be used to transfer genetic info from the F pilus producing bacteria to the recipient, a rough annalogy to sexual reproduction.

Answer 5

Some answer got the correct answer and others did not.

Bacteria are niether when they divide and reproduce. We differ male and female bacteria by the F-plasmid. The cell with all of the, I call it spikes, is called the male and contains the F-plasmid. Then a tube of cytoplasmic material stretches to another cell, without spikes, which is called the female. They are conected by a tube called the s*x pili. The process is called conjugation. The F-plasmid is divided and sent to the female via s*x pili and is now called the F'-plasmid. This is how genetic material is shared from one cell to the other. For example, one get a resistance mutation from an antibiotic, its daughter cells will get the resistance gene and any cells that conjugate with the resistant cells will get that plasmid.

good luck.

Answer 6

I dont think its a gender... i think it just a germ or bacteria whatever!

I am almost postive it doesnt have a gender!

Answer 7

bacteria is asexual, neither male nor female. it undergoes asexual reproduction (binary fission) and thus, get its "gender"

Answer 8

BACTERIA IS ALWAYS BOTH

Answer 9

Neither.  They don't have sexes.

Answer 10

neither because it reproduces asexually

Answer 11

no but some bacteria has plasmid F and you can to likeen and  to compare to male

Answer 12

its niether male or female its made of genetic material that is DNA or RNA but not both .

Answer 13

  Bacteria  don't have any s*x( Asexual),they will mutiply by asexual reproduction that is by binary fission.

Bacteria are very very small organisms,what is the use of having sexual dimorfism, one of the advantage of this sexual dimorfism is to genarete genetically improved offsprings.where as for Bacteria this can be achived by binary fussion.    

Answer 14

Neither, both.

The term bacteria is a bit too vague to answer in detail but it turns out that while single cell 'animals' reproduce by fission- splitting in two- they can and often do exchange genetic material, which is s*x.  But the exchange of genetic material does not result in new offspring, it is not (yet) reproducing.  It results in a modified bacteria that, when it splits, will pass onto  both new cells  the genetic modification.

So, in terms of reproduction bacteria a sexless, asexual.  But in terms of genetic transfer they are both, hermaphrodites.

Answer 15

some out bothe but they usually dont need another bacteria to reproduce they can just split in half and then there are two  

Answer 16

Neither.

Answer 17

no idea

Answer 18

Its Neither. If it had to be one it would be Male.  

Answer 19

female defiantly! Well neither really as they get their variation from the high rate of binary fission.