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Unlike other bacteria, this one could be seen with the naked eye. The newly discovered bacterium is about as large as the period at the end of this sentence, making it gargantuan by bacterial standards."
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Unlike other bacteria, this one could be seen with the naked eye. The newly discovered bacterium is about as large as the period at the end of this sentence, making it gargantuan by bacterial standards." With a volume about 3 million times greater than average bacteria, Thiomargarita namibienus is by far the world's largest bacterium ever found. It shattered the conventional wisdom that bacteria's inherent physiology prevented them from ever getting so big. The inclusions inside the organism are due to large liquid vacuoles which occupy most of its internal space (approximately 80 98%). The vacuoles permit such cell size without the organism experiencing diffusional limitation because the vacuoles reduce the size of effective cytoplasm.
