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     2010-JUN-27 [SUN] 10:48 AM

Nanobacteria

How small can something be before it can be considered a living thing. Most scientist think that the smallest something can be before it can be considered living, which is based on the idea that living things have to have the ability to reproduce which means it has to be able to contain some form of DNA, is 0.2 (200 nanometres) um.

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FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobacterium

"Nanobacteria (singular nanobacterium) is the name of a proposed class of living organisms; specifically cell-walled microorganisms with a size much smaller than the generally accepted lower limit size for life (about 200 nanometres for bacteria)..."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobacterium 




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