“From bacteria to blue whales, the number of cells in living things exceeds the estimated number of sand grains on Earth by a factor of a trillion. […] And the number of cells that have ever lived is 10 orders of magnitude larger still.”
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“From bacteria to blue whales, the number of cells in living things exceeds the estimated number of sand grains on Earth by a factor of a trillion. […] And the number of cells that have ever lived is 10 orders of magnitude larger still.”
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