2007-02-06 01:20:21 · 9 answers · asked by Blake77 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The amount of bacteria living on this planet is a lot. 'A lot' is an understatement.
There are tons : 'There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×10^30) ' (wikipedia)
think of it as this, there are way more bacteria than humans...and who said aliens would take over? It sounds like bacteria will be the ones to take over? .if they havn't already....(hehe)
i hope that helps =)
2007-02-06 04:15:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 or 4.
2007-02-06 09:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by JiveSly 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are by far the most dominant life form on the planet, whether judged by number of species (millions) number of individuals (many billions) or biomass (millions of tuns)
2007-02-06 09:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by mick t 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An estimated 5x10^30 (5 million trillion trillion). Among these, each of us humans has about 7x10^13 (70 trillion).
Check out:
http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/eands/articles/LXIX2/newman.pdf
2007-02-06 10:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can they survive as individuals..?
If not, then none.
If so, who really knows or cares.
2007-02-06 09:26:45 · answer #5 · answered by Merovingian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think they have a number that big, u could say its an infinite amount
2007-02-06 09:33:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
trillions to the trillionth power.
2007-02-06 10:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My god, millions upon millions upon millions etc of them!
2007-02-06 20:15:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't live long but fred, amy, george, michael.....
2007-02-06 09:29:00 · answer #9 · answered by Nothing to say? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋