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Characteristics of Prokaryotic Cells

Microbial Size
This figure shows relative sizes of microbes on a logarithmic scale (recall that each unit of increase in a logarithmic scale represents a 10-fold increase in the quantity being measured).
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"OpenStax College, Prokaryotic Cells. October 16, 2013."
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