(October 3, 2013 at 2:53 pm)Chas Wrote: More than that, several pounds of bacteria are part of what you consider you.Joy! Another person who revels in this fact! I sometimes wonder if we are all here as giant housing and feeding condos for bacteria.
And add to that the fact that all your mitochondria evolved from bacteria, and that huge pieces of that bacterial DNA have transferred into our genomes, and you start looking like a big Petri dish.
And don't get me started on how much of our genome is viral.