[extropy-chat] What is the smallest genome possible?

[Damien Broderick]

>*what* precisely is a bacteria?

I know it's tiresome of me to mention this, but "a bacteria" is a 
grammatical error, that's what it is. The singular word everyone in 
this thread is looking for is "bacterium".

(And before anyone starts talking about plural "virii", that's "viri" 
or "viruses".)

Damien Broderick
[your friendly neighborhood lexical cop]