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Life too small to see but too powerful to ignore — it runs the planet while you sleep.
means A living thing so small you need a microscope to see it — bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other tiny organisms.
from Built from Greek 'mikros' (small) and 'organismos' (organized body, from 'organon', tool or instrument). The compound word tracks the technology: it only entered common use after microscopes got good enough, in the 1800s, for scientists like Pasteur to actually see and study these tiny bodies, so the name and the discovery grew up together.
- earth's biomass
- microbes outweigh all animals combined
- your body
- more microbial cells than human ones
- oxygen source
- ocean microbes make half of it
- first life
- ruled earth alone for two billion years