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After all, bacteria don't have infants that require education, they replicate, producing exact copies of themselves (if all goes well and there are no transcription errors in the DNA), and that includes retaining memory engrams encoded into proteins or other material.

For gut bacteria, that engram could be "Mom's home cooking, yum. Cheap convenience store burritos, go dormant until they pass by."

Bacteria atre turning out to be a lot more complicated than was once thought.