Have You Heard About Obelisks?
They are even smaller than virus particles but still have the ability to pass instructions to larger forms of life.
It’s not very often that a completely new form of life is found. Oh, we find new species of all different kinds of organisms but an entirely new class of organism? That is a rarity. Especially for the small ones.
In 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who is often called the Father of Microbiology and who made his own microscopes by grinding the lenses, was the first person to see and describe the organisms we now call bacteria.
And it was more than another 100 years until someone else saw and described them! He also saw what we now call the protozoans, small creatures that can have both plant and animal features in a single organism and that are often also called protists.
So how many distinctly different classes of life forms are there? Before we found the organisms I’m going to tell you about today, the tree of life looked like this:
Don’t worry; there’s no quiz here, so you don’t have to memorize any of this! As you can see, if we…
