WE IGNORE HALF OF NATURE. “Classical biology describes the familiar, macroscale realm of multi-cellular eukaryotic organisms, which constitute a highly derived and constrained evolutionary subset of the biosphere, unrepresentative of the vast, mostly unseen, microbial world of prokaryotic life that comprises at least half of the planet’s biomass and most of its genetic diversity.”
https://standardsingenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-016-0180-8
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022