Friday, 9 June 2017

genetics - Can an argument be made that humans are 90% bacterial?


On the blog, All about Scientist in Microword: Microbiology, I read the post We are 90% bacteria, actually, which says that humans are 90% bacterial cells.


If this is the case, then why don't we behave like them and why isn't the bacteria genetic material more dominant?


As bacteria helps us in making many enzymes for us, can we say that we are symbiotic creatures?




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