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Being a minority within ourselves

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Greetings! Pop Quiz - considering survival, reproduction and count as factors - which group of species can call themselves the most successful species on mother earth? Humans? Bzzzzz (that's me hitting the buzzer that indicates wrong answer!) This award goes to what we call as single cell organisms. With the numbers that are in multiples of, multiples of, multiples of sum of counts of all other species put together, we can simply call them as rulers of earth... (Apologies to the dictators of world who had deluded themselves to have concurred the world or felt that they can... Sorry guys, but you cannot even beat a bacterium... Go figure!) These little(?) folks make up most of the life on the earth and it seems like the human bodies are simply swimming in their oceans. But thank God, at least we have our bodies... or do we? Research says that "There are about 100 trillion cells in a human body. However, even one tenth are hardly real human cells.  The human b...