Microbes
Check out the communities of bacteria living on your tongue
Bacteria scraped off the tongue offer a window into how the microbes structure their communities.
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Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
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Materials ScienceSelf-powered surface may evaluate table-tennis play
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