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minus-squarePotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoI’m not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That’s probably not a bacteriophage
minus-squareSoleInvictuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-22 months agoI am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus. Edit: it’s probably a radiolarian skeleton, maybe genus cornutella. Edit 2: it’s indeed a cornutella skeleton: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032
minus-squareIrritableOcelot@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoCame here to say this…
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoDefinitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.
I’m not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That’s probably not a bacteriophage
I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.
Edit: it’s probably a radiolarian skeleton, maybe genus cornutella.
Edit 2: it’s indeed a cornutella skeleton: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12782032
Came here to say this…
Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.