According to the official website of the American "Science" magazine, a research team composed of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and other institutions in the United States published an article in the June 24 issue of the "Science" magazine, saying that they discovered a huge bacteria with a maximum length of up to 2 centimeters.
Normally bacteria are only about 1/500th of a millimeter in length, and the team said the discovery "turns the conventional concept of bacteria on its head."
In a mangrove forest in Guadeloupe, a French overseas province in the Caribbean Sea, the scientific research team discovered a filamentous organism attached to fallen leaves. After analysis by electron microscopy, it was found that there was DNA in the cells of the organism, with Bacterial characteristics.
The longer the bacteria, the easier it is for the cells that make up the bacteria to obtain oxygen and sulfide, the researchers said.
(produced by Le Xiaomin)
Responsible editor: [Sun Jingbo]