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Yep - you're correct, bacteria do not have a nucleus either. I was swapping the words around to try and create a parallel sentence and I thought I had corrected
by toufka 11y ago
Yep - you're correct, bacteria do not have a nucleus either. I was swapping the words around to try and create a parallel sentence and I thought I had corrected 'nuclei' to 'genomes' in my edit, but apparently I did not.
"there are 39 trillion separate non-human genomes in a human body, and only 5 trillion human nuclei." And you'd be correct in pointing out that that sentence is also a little wonky.
Which is the best metric? Nuclei, cells, dividable cells, base pairs, non-redundant base pairs, protein-encoding base pairs, expressed human protein, mass, species, etc?
It's difficult to get the nomenclature exactly parallel between mammalian and bacterial cells, much less fungal or viral material. But that's also the point. It's tricky to compare, and shouting that one comparison is wrong is just kind of click-baity.