Microbes: Secret Rulers of the World?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Detecting Microbes in the Environment
In the last 20 years, we've been able to detect microbes that are alive in water now. We're discussing detecting microbes that have been fossilized in from water on marriage that existed millions of years ago. I think only about point one % of microbes in the environmentre easy to culture laboratory. But now we have molecular probes to to identify them. So there's a lot going on in the living world, let alone in the past.
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