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Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive
Within this dinoflagellate plankton is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. (Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba) What is an organism, anyway?
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Within this dinoflagellate plankton is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. (Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba) What is an organism, anyway? ScienceAlert .
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