Quote by Anne E. Maczulak

“No one knows the number of bacterial species. About 5,000 species have been characterized and another 10,000 have been partially identified. Biodiversity authority Edward…

— Anne E. Maczulak

Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the…

— E. O. Wilson

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another... Since there is…

— Alan H. Linton

“Species that evolved from a common ancestor are bunched together under the heading ‘genus’ (plural genera).”

— Yuval Noah Harari

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells…

— Richard Dawkins

In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous…

— David M. Raup

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

— Richard Dawkins

The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework

— Carl Woese

These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already…

— Louis Pasteur

Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently…

— Marjory Stephenson

There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others,…

— Carl Linnaeus