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I wonder: The arms race between bacteria and other organisms has gone on for a long long time, is there a defense mechanism against every bacteria? Because othe
by jcfrei 11y ago
I wonder: The arms race between bacteria and other organisms has gone on for a long long time, is there a defense mechanism against every bacteria? Because otherwise bacteria would be the only organism to inhabit this planet? Or is the only thing that historically prevented world domination by bacteria the lack of transportation to remote places? If that's the case then has the proliferation of mass transport ultimately shifted the odds in favor of bacteria?
And are antibiotics a catalyst for the evolution of bacteria or its demise?
- Retric 11y agoIn terms of Biomass Bacteria are the dominate life form on the earth. The average person has over 1lb of Bacteria living in there body and vastly more bacterial cells than human cells.