Mycrabs Are All Around Us

Mycrabs are all around us, and we don't necessarily need a microscope to see what they're up to. So for example, i mention the architects of our planet's life support system. If you go to a lawn and you find a clover, very carefully take it out of the ground with its roots intact, there'll be this sort of pinkish blood that emerges. This is hemoglobin produced by bacteria living in these nodules on the roots to lock up the oxygen. And if you poke it, it breaks up into jagged bits, not like an oil slick. It's actually a raft of manganese oxidizing bacteria that are living thesurface of that little