• Question: What Is The Biggest Microbe In Diamiter??

    Asked by wally95 to Sarah, Panos, Mark, MarkF on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Thiomargarita namibiensis is the biggest, with a diameter that is anything from about 0.1mm to as big as 0.75mm. I think it would be possible to see these really big ones without the use of a microscope.

    • Photo: Mark Travis

      Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I don’t know much about sizes…..The definition of a microbe is an organsism that can be seen under a microscope. So, anything that is too big won’t be a microbe! I know that bacteria is pretty big compared to virsuses, which are tiny.

    • Photo: Panos Soultanas

      Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      http://bbruner.org/mic_odd.htm

      This site tells you many intersting things about unusual microbes, including big ones.

    • Photo: Sarah Burl

      Sarah Burl answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      The biggest microbe is the Pearl of Namibia which is about 0.7mm in size. It was found in Namibia in 1999 and a scientist got a paper in one of the top journals ‘Science’ after this discovery.

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