# @seed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BhE86eKn2mA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34248003-seed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-04-02T18:01:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

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#Bacteria • Noun • / bakˈtirēə/⠀
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#Scientific Definition: ⠀
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#Microscopic, single-celled #organisms belonging to Kingdom #Monera that possess a #prokaryotic type of cell structure, which means their cells are non-compartmentalized, and their #DNA (usually circular) can be found throughout the #cytoplasm rather than within a membrane-bound #nucleus.⠀
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#Seed Translation: ⠀
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Bacteria ruled the #world for 3.7 billion years before #humans even made an appearance. They continue to rule the world today. In fact, there are 38,000,000,000,000 of them living in and on you right now. 🤯 They make up your #microbiome and are essential to your health, performing functions like aiding in #digestion, modulating immune responses, and producing #vitamins and key #metabolites. ⠀
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Bacteria have historically had a bad rap—the #discovery of some pathogenic ones like Mycobacterium #tuberculosis and Escherichia coli sent us into germ hysteria, resulting in a century of antibiotic and antibacterial overuse, attempting to wipe them from existence.⠀
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But we now know that the overwhelming majority of bacteria are #benign, and many are even #beneficial, if not critical. You wouldn’t be here without them. You wouldn’t be human without them.⠀
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You + Bacteria = You. 💛⠀

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microscopic, dna, prokaryotic, digestion, world, seed, organisms, cytoplasm, metabolites, humans, tuberculosis, bacteria, vitamins, scientific, monera, discovery, benign, nucleus, microbiome, beneficial

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