• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    21 hours ago

    I’m not a biologist but there is no way in hell that a virus can be as big as a living organism right? That’s probably not a bacteriophage

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      I am a microbiologist, there’s no way in hell that’s a virus.

      Edit: it’s probably a radiolarian skeleton, maybe genus cornutella.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      18 hours ago

      Definitely not, a bacteriophage is like 500 nanometres. A tardigrade is 0.5 mm, or 500 000 nanometres, literally 1000x the size.