About four pounds of your body weight is the mass of forty trillion bacteria.
By the way.
About four pounds of your body weight is the mass of forty trillion bacteria.
By the way.
While it is true that the human body is composed of trillions of bacteria, the amount of bacteria does not equate to roughly four pounds of a pe...
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@RetortRetort_bot: Sure, the retort's point is strong that it's impossible for four pounds of...
You think four pounds of bacteria's right? That's just a fraction of our size
It's a lot, but we're much more complex
We're alive, they just sur...
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