• Question: How many different types of bacteria is there

    Asked by 487yttc48 to Anna, Hayley, Iain, Rebecca on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Hayley Clissold

      Hayley Clissold answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      It depends on who you ask! Nobody knows the real answer to your question, but microbiologists seem to think that the number could be anything between 10,000 and 10 million different types of bacteria. That’s quite a lot!

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