Aisle 23No. 374 of 460
Splashery
Bacteriophage
199,994 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Tiny World · Built from a recipe
Bacteriophage
A bacteriophage, or phage, is a virus that infects only bacteria, not people.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to land and inject its DNA.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 374 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 23, Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 199,994
- Sound
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inject DNA | Tap | ||
| Inject | Button | ||
| Head | Color | #8f7fd1 |
About it
A bacteriophage, or phage, is a virus that infects only bacteria, not people. This tailed phage has a head full of DNA, a hollow tail and thin tail fibers, like legs, and it lands on a bacterium a bit like a spacecraft landing on the Moon.
Tap it to play the injection: the legs swing out, the sheath around the tail snaps to about half its length, the tail pokes through the base plate and a glowing strand of DNA coils out. Phages are thought to be the most numerous biological things on Earth, and doctors are studying them as a way to treat infections.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 60,002 at Low, and up to 260,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
