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Une bactérie en forme de flacon, dépourvue de paroi cellulaire, qui possède l'un des plus petits génomes de tous les organismes cultivables seuls : moins de 500 gènes. Elle a aidé les scientifiques à déterminer l'ensemble minimal de gènes nécessaires à la vie.
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Hey! I'm Matthew, a zoologist with an obsession for all the wee beasties and critters of the world. Books and screens almost never show animals at their true size, so you can never quite get a grasp on just how teeny the Pink Fairy Armadillo, or how large a Blue Whale's eyeball really is. So I made Nature to Scale, where every specimen is drawn from published measurements and shown at its true size on your screen. Hold your hand up to it.
Even the Goliath Bird-Eating Tarantula... if you dare!
Each drawing is made from reference photographs, and the measurement it is scaled to is cited under Sources. If a size looks wrong, use “Suggest A Correction” on that specimen and I will check it.
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Longueur de la cellule : 0,6 µm (0,000024 po)
Une bactérie en forme de flacon, dépourvue de paroi cellulaire, qui possède l'un des plus petits génomes de tous les organismes cultivables seuls : moins de 500 gènes. Elle a aidé les scientifiques à déterminer l'ensemble minimal de gènes nécessaires à la vie.
Sur cette page, le spécimen Mycoplasme est dessiné à sa taille réelle sur votre écran. Calibrez une fois avec une carte bancaire ou une règle, et le dessin correspondra à l'original. Affiché sous forme de contour en taille réelle en attendant son dessin.
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