If biologists could quantify all the bacterial and human cells within the human body, they would find that there are far more human cells.

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Current estimates suggest that there are roughly the same number of bacterial cells and human cells within the human body. However, bacterial cells tend to be much smaller than human cells, so the total mass of bacteria in the body is believed to be much less than the total mass of human cells.

If Biologists Could Quantify All the Bacterial and Human Cells