Bacteriophage

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 913.5 Hz, 65 cents sharp of A5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

Tap it to land and inject its DNA.

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.

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.