Bacteria, which are classified as microorganisms, are usually measured with a micrometer, which is equivalent to one-thousandth of a millimeter. While almost none of the bacteria can be seen with the naked eye, there are a few species that can be seen with the naked eye. For example, the bacterium ‘thiomargarita namibinensis’ can be about half a millimeter long and visible to the naked eye.

Today scientists came up with the example of a much larger species in bacteria. In the same family as the example bacterium above’thiomargarita magnificaof a bacterium up to a centimeter appeared to be accessible. The bacterium was found on rotting leaves of mangrove trees buried underwater in the French Caribbean.

It has not yet reached its greatest form.

Bacteria had an average cell length of 2 micrometers, while magnifica had a cell length of about 9,000 micrometers, or almost 1 centimeter. Moreover, magnifica, according to scientists It wasn’t even at its highest. According to scientists, bacteria can grow up to two centimeters in length.

On the other hand ‘largest bacteria‘, Thiomargarita magnifica was far from taking the title of the largest single-celled organism ever discovered. Magnifica is the largest single-celled organism ever discovered, although 5,000 times larger than most bacteria. 10 times bigger used to be. The bacteria in question was a type of algae called Caulerpa taxifolia.

So how does such a large bacteria survive?

Until recently, the scientific community claimed that these creatures could not achieve visible size due to the way bacteria interact with their environment and produce energy. The studies on Magnifica provided a lot of information about the bacteria that reached this size. Magnifica’s power generation has an extensive membrane networkrevealing that it does not rely solely on surface area to absorb nutrients by the cell.

In addition, unlike most bacteria, whose single cells contain free-floating genetic material, magnifica stores its cell’s DNA in tiny sacs with a membrane called “pepin.” In fact, this method shapes our bodies, animals and plants. a property of more complex cells known as.