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From Carbon to Coffee Bean, A Visual Scale
Jul 30 2011 7:07:39 pm EST
Topics: Botany, Evolution, Morphology, Science,
© Amoeba Feeding, Copyright D G Mackean
From the Genetics Science Learning Center at the University of Utah, I found this excellent Flash animation that displays a scaled representation of various organisms, bacteria, viruses, and molecules down to a carbon atom.
The animation helps put in perspective the size of the systems responsible for life. In particular, I am surprised by the size of viruses, and can appreciate the difficulty in detecting them.
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