• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    What does “being a human colony” mean? A human colony is by definition human, not bacteria.

    Also *a bacterium.

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        2 days ago

        Well, there are plenty of bacteria who form colonies, though I’m not sure if any do it as part of a stage of life. I’m not aware of any bacteria that have stages of life at all, like how insects have larval, pupal, etc. But bacteria do experience stages as a colony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth

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          1 day ago

          Can see my question that way.

          But I think I meant whether the lifecycle of a bacteria including being part of a human cellular colony.

          Like we are crucial to and perhaps important the reproductive phase of them.

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    2 days ago

    100% true if we extend ‘life-cycle’ to the entire evolutionary organism/branch, not only one instance…