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Monster microbe

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Bacteria Are Bigger Than Most Bacterioms

Most bacteria are one or two micrometers in length. These er, these guis, are 20 thousand micrometersn at the scale of macrobes. They are modest the size and shape of a human eyelash. And that still is a single bacteroselor that is very big. What is very new with this bacteriom is that a new type of organel has been observed within these giant cells. Its function, apparently, is to contain the genomic material, the giene of the cell. Is extraordinary.

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