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If you want to go down another order of magnitude or few, fluorescent microscopy of single-celled organisms is pretty interesting. This collection of images is
by photochemsyn 4y ago
If you want to go down another order of magnitude or few, fluorescent microscopy of single-celled organisms is pretty interesting. This collection of images is stunning:
https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/epifluorescencemicroscopy.html https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/epifluorescencemi...
These techniques also revealed the sheer scale of microbial life, as even the clearest ocean water from the most remote, nutrient-limited tropical seas will contain as many as 100,000 cells per mL. Below that there are the various viruses that infect or cohabit with these bacteria and small plants and animals, which are invisible to light microscopy.
- mncharity 4y ago> the sheer scale of microbial life [...] ocean water There's also the sheer predation of it. IIRC, for some coastal surface biome I've long forgotten, viral half-life was like an hour, and a third of bacteria were virally lysed each day. A cup of beach water is not just teaming with life, it's a war zone.