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I’m not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That’s probably not a bacteriophage

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SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.

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- IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Came here to say this…
  
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ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.

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