The Scale of the Microbial World | |||||
How can we establish a scale for bacteria and viruses that is meaningful? An appreciation of scale is essential for understanding how microbes function– whether we are interested in pathogenesis or in soil enrichment. A data set of microbes and a few other objects with size information is provided for determining scale bars and assigning magnification values.
Topic(s): Cell/Metabolism Resources: Scale of MicrobialWorld.pdf
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