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Trillions of bacteria renting space in your gut, running the place like landlords.
means The whole community of microorganisms — bacteria, fungi, viruses — living in or on a particular environment, especially your body.
from Built from Greek 'mikros' (small) and 'bios' (life), capped with the suffix '-ome' borrowed from 'genome' — that same suffix biologists now slap on anything meaning 'the whole collected set of' (transcriptome, proteome, and so on). The term itself is a 20th-century scientific coinage, popularized as researchers realized these microbial tenants deserved to be studied as a single, sprawling ecosystem rather than as individual germs.
- cell ratio
- outnumber your own cells roughly one to one
- mood control
- produce most of your bodys serotonin, not your brain
- unique id
- more individual than your fingerprint, shared with no one
- diet speed
- can shift composition within three days of eating differently