Sentences with phrase «number of microscopic organisms»

The human body is host to a number of microscopic organisms, such as parasites and mites.

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Lacking natural predators, salps can often be found clustering in huge swarms, sometimes numbering in the billions, and eating every microscopic organism in their path — producing huge quantities of waste, in the form of large, fast - sinking fecal «pellets,» which are transported (and sequestered) to the deep sea.