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Seberapa kecil Mimivirus?

Mimivirus memiliki diameter sekitar 750 nm.

Yang diukur: giant virus, capsid diameter

Mimivirus (750 nm) ditampilkan sesuai skala di samping a flu virus (100 nm) dan an E. coli bacterium (2 µm)
Digambar sesuai skala, dari kiri ke kanan: Flu virus (100 nm), Mimivirus (750 nm), dan E. coli bacterium (2 µm).

Bandingkan

Seberapa besar sebenarnya?

  • As wide as about 8 flu viruses side by side
  • About 2 would fit end to end along an E. coli bacterium
  • About 10 would fit across a red blood cell
  • About 30× as wide as a ribosome

Pelajari

Fakta tentang Mimivirus

Mimivirus is so large it was initially mistaken for a bacterium under a microscope.

Sumber: Viral Zone: Mimiviridae; La Scola et al. 2003, Science

Micro World

NamaUkuranDibandingkan dengan Mimivirus
Collagen Fibril300 nm0,4×
Vaccinia Virus300 nm0,4×
Lysosome500 nm0,67×
Mimivirus750 nmhalaman ini
Neisseria gonorrhoeae800 nm1,1×
Pandoravirus1 µm1,3×
Synechococcus Cyanobacterium1 µm1,3×
Nitrosomonas europaea Bacterium1,5 µm2×
Micrococcus luteus1,5 µm2×
Listeria monocytogenes2 µm2,7×

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Mana yang lebih besar: Mimivirus atau Pandoravirus?

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