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How Many Pepins Are in a Bacteria Cell?

The inside of the cell was more complex than what we expected. We realized that they were those structures that we call pepins, er after the small seeds in fruits. There are actually, we have a rough estimation, and this find that in a single bacterial cell, there might be up to half a million of those pepins,. Half a million genom copies? All these copies of itself within oneself? It's kind of mind blowing.

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