Microbes on Earth
Posted on November 8, 2006 Comments (0)
Tiny microbes play big role (broken link removed Feb 2007 – shame on the Detroit Free Press):
“It’s an entire world that most of us have no idea about,” said Alan Leshner, the chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Countless trillions of microbes — mostly bacteria and a recently discovered kingdom of one-celled creatures known as archaea — inhabit every cranny of the globe. They reshape their environment, make life possible and sometimes destroy it.
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