• Question: how many bactearya parts are in arwore body.

    Asked by Lovebird26 to Aimee, Gemma, Hussain, Robert, Ross on 14 Nov 2015.
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      Robert Lees answered on 14 Nov 2015:


      There are up to 10 times more bacterial cells in/on our body than our own cells, however we would not be able to live without these bacteria (called the human microbiota). Bacterial cells are much smaller than our own, so we don’t look like bacteria (they’re mostly in our gut anyway).

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