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How many cells make up one bacterium?

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1 cell that will eventually divide into two identical daughter cells.
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As of 2014, it was often reported in popular media and in the scientific literature that there are about 10 times as many microbial cells in the human body as there are human cells; this figure was based on estimates that the human microbiome includes around 100 trillion bacterial cells and that an adult human ...

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