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Did you ever read the Dr. Seuss book called "Horton Hears a Who" ? about horton the elephant hearing tiny 'people' called 'who's" that live in a tiny speck of dust? he carried it around so carefully so the 'whos' wouldn't get hurt....... what if planet earth is just a tiny speck in the great universe? what if micro-organisms have even smaller life forms visible to them? It could conceivably go on into infinity in either direction!

2006-11-14 03:53:53 · answer #1 · answered by Squirrley Temple 7 · 0 0

I think it would look a lot like microscopic life here on Earth. It would be really interesting to know what the differences are, though. Would it use DNA or RNA or something else entirely? Would it use the same amino acids as life on Earth or different ones? Would it be carbon-based or something else? I really hope we find life in my lifetime, so I can learn some of the answers!

2006-11-14 11:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by kris 6 · 0 0

Um... we've known about microscoping organisms for a long time. Bacteria, algea, amoebas, arguably virii. Just open a biology textbook to see what microscopic life looks like; or buy a microscope.

2006-11-14 11:48:37 · answer #3 · answered by Enrique C 3 · 0 0

I think it would look just like the stuff we already found. If you haven't washed your hands in the last hour you can find enough microbes on those hands to culture lots of microbes.

There are several families of microbes based on their shape (round, rod shaped, chains, clumps, paired) and they are so general that it is expected that new one will fit with those groupings.
Size varies from as small as a virus to as big as a hyphen.
New ones are constantly being discovered.

2006-11-14 11:53:46 · answer #4 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0 0

What are you talking about ? There IS microscopic life, and we already know about it AND what it looks like !

They are called "micro-organisms"

Good luck !!

2006-11-14 11:47:47 · answer #5 · answered by Falling to pieces 2 · 0 0

Probably like anything you'd see through any decent microscope....Bateria, viruses, algae, etc etc etc

2006-11-14 11:47:02 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0 0

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