mostly extremely tiny - 0.1 - 10 x 10-6 m.
but extremely numerous:
1 spoon garden soil - 1010
1 cm2 gum scrape - 109
total weight of all earth's bacteria
= 1/10 all earth's mammals
cover all surfaces, interior & exterior;
mainly benign or beneficial
open genetic exchange; sex ° reproduction
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