Microorganisms cultivated from deep-water organisms.

Figure 3: Microorganisms cultivated from deep-water organisms. Notice the variety of colors, shapes, and sizes of the resulting colonies. By the time the colony is large enough to be seen by the human eye, it has at least one million cells. Image courtesy of Julie Olson/Brooke et al, NOAA-OE, HBOI.

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