• Question: What is the smallest alive thing in the world?

    Asked by anon-174234 to Alex, Carl, Hayley, Melanie, Tim, Yewande on 15 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Melanie Hannah

      Melanie Hannah answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      I don’t know. Some of my colleagues work on Fruit fly embryo to study development and they are very small

    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      There’s a species of bacteria which lives as a parasite and is thought to be the smallest known organism that is capable of independent growth.

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      Viruses are the smallest, but they are parasites and need to grow in other cells. The smallest independent life forms are bacterial

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