• Question: What Is The Smallest Microbe In Mass??

    Asked by wally95 to Michael, MarkF on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Mark Fogg

      Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I’m not sure about the smallest or largest, but the average mass is about 0.00000000001g (10 pico grams).

    • Photo: Michael Loughlin

      Michael Loughlin answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      well if microbe is bacteria then a member of the nanoarchea familly or mycoplasma which are about the same size as the larger viruses.
      Viruses can get to much much smaller as they are basically some genes wrapped in a protein shell

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