By 
Roberto Kolter
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TED-Ed Original

The microbial jungles all over the place (and you)

As we walk through our daily environments we're surrounded by exotic creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye. We usually imagine these microscopic organisms or microbes as asocial cells that float around by themselves. But in reality microbes gather by the millions to form vast communities. Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter describes how and why microbes create biofilms.

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