Write a brief summary of this article please and thank you!! 95 percent of all the cells in the human body are bacteria – most of them live in the intestinal tract. In fact, you have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells!
There are more bacteria in your colon right now than there are human beings who have ever lived on the planet Earth. These bacteria ferment 100 grams of food every day!
The largest bacteria ever found were discovered in the guts of fish off the coast of Australia. Epulopiscium fishelsoni can grow to the size of the dot in the exclamation point at the end of this sentence – that's huge for a bacterium!
Magnetotactic bacteria contain tiny magnetic iron particles. They then move these particles in a line and use them to form a kind of compass that aligns them with the Earth's magnetic field!
Deinococcus Radiodurans, a type of bacteria, can withstand a dose of 15,000 grays of radiation – 3,000 times the dose it would take to kill a human being!