It looks like the picture above.

heck yeah, you could gather far fewer than that. each of these little dots, easily visible to the naked eye, is a colony of a few hundred thousand bacterial cells. I suspect that if you could gather all the bacteria on earth in a space, it would have to be quite a large space to accommodate them all.

In fact, here’s a source that estimates total weight of all bacteria on earth at 7,000,000,000 TONS!!!

All life on Earth, in one staggering chart

Do you mean for the bacteria or for those studying them?

Bacteria themselves

Bacteria don’t live very long, but they have very interesting lives. When they’re reproducing asexually they can double every 20 minutes or so. That keeps them quite busy. Many can even enjoy sex and pick up small pieces of new information as parts of plasmids. The DNA in their mitochondria takes care of their energy needs and food is generally not too hard to find.

Of course, they can be eaten by larger creatures—Paramecia like them a lot and humans even swallow a bunch very often as they breathe, drink, or eat. Bacteriophage are a real nuisance.

Bacteria as objects of study and creativity

The people who work with bacteria can have fun too. We can drown them in stains and see their insides and outsides under powerful microscopes. We can use them to eat up messes we drop on the floor—anything left behind by the dog. Because they grow so fast we can conduct all kinds of experiments with them.

Non-bacteria-loving people who visit a bacteriology lab are often put off by odors, though. Researchers tend to get used to them easily. The odor of bacteria growing on agar in a Petri dish or nutrient broth in a test tube can be quite stinky. We have to make sure we’re not putting them in places we don’t want them.

I remember one of my advisors saying, “I don’t care WHAT they are—just GET RID OF THEM.” I would always get sidetracked trying to identify the contaminants.

Bacteria with special genetic mutations or of different genuses and species can be easily stored in little glass tubes with agar. That’s how our lab kept Salmonella for the world. They can be shipped easily and safely—except if they’re pathogens.

And, bacteria and other microorganisms—for example, yeasts and molds—are really good at producing beer, kombucha, yogurt, probiotics, cheese, breads and pastries, ……. time for a break and some food!

Thanks for the question and the opportunity to expound on such interesting examples of life.

“What is the commication that takes place between a being and its world?”

The general term you want is “interaction”.

“A virus can interact, push actions forward within a 3D world.”

4D world- don’t forget time. And viruses can’t do anything except when in contact with a living cell.

“What allows this to happen? Without thinking about chemical and physical interaction.”

Some people are just determined that something “supernatural” (not covered by chemistry and physics) must exist. You seem to be one of them.

“What else is taking place?”

Please show me some unequivocal evidence for your “else” and we’ll talk. Until then chemistry and physics have it all covered.

How bacteria and cells each other. We think seeing is what we perceive from eyes due to diffraction of light (photons in visible range) reaching our eyes and processed by brain as image. However inside our body or in water (for cells or or bacteria) there are no photons (light) to make them visible. So how cells like white blood cells or bacteria or even virus see each other. It is all because of various chemicals secreted by living organism or on surface of cells or bacteria which cause CHEMOTAXIS, which can be positive (attraction) or negative (repulsion) because cells can detect chemicals and also determine direction of chemicals.

Chemotaxis of Neutrophils towards injury

Chemotaxis towards Glucose of bacteria

SARS virus getting attached to ACE2 receptor

Apart from this there are chemical receptors and corresponding ligands on surface of cell or bacteria or even virus and get attached with each other due to chemical bonds like hydrogen or van der Waals or ionic bonds. These receptors and their ligand fit in each other like hand and glove

Receptor and ligand fitting each other like hand and glove

Of course not. In linguistics, vernacular is the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.

Molecules communicate when they interact in the crowded cellular environment. This communication requires an evolving molecular language capable of adapting to the varying environments that are internal and external to the cells.

G.Caetano-Anollés explores the existence of a growing vocabulary in the molecules and molecular functions of the cellular world. -

The oldest naturally existing form of communication between two organisms is based on the exchange of molecules. It is used even by the simplest single-cell organisms to exchange information in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). This type of communication has been developed and optimized by nature over billions of years and is still used today in numerous forms within and between several organisms.

Neurotransmitters diffuse in chemical synapses through the synaptic cleft from a presynaptic cell
to a postsynaptic cell in order to transfer action potentials between two neurons.

In fauna, pheromones are used for information transfer. Ants, for example, use chemical signals for communication. Even in flora, molecules are used for communication purposes. For instance, plants release volatiles in response to herbivore attacks to attract natural enemies and warn neighbouring plants.

In the research area of molecular communication, this naturally occurring form of communication is exploited or mimicked in order to realize information transmission.

Transmission can be divided into the three main components: transmitter, channel, and receiver.

G.Caetano-Anollés. Language: The language of biomolecular communication.

They would tend to be an precise reflection of what we are beholding since with an ever clarified perceptibility, the seeing would be that which is from outside with our eyes as well as from deep well insight which is with our embodiment’s pure divine vision.

Sow then, the surroundings would be distinctly portraying the unique evolutionary essence/facets/pockets/tracts and so on and sow forth of the natural energies.

With that degree of expanded awareness/consciousness, we would earnestly strive to focus upon how-vow we could be of greater instrumental benefit towards aligning with the evolving synergies all the way light/right true and through-ought.

Can biomolecules communicate in what we call "the vernacular"?

Short answer: No.

If details are required, look up one or both of Wikipedia article Vernacular and dictionary entry vernacular.

If that fails to enlighten, try etymology online, entry vernacular.

Image snagged from thesaurus.plus article Vernacular antonyms:

Stilton, Edamer, Gorgonzola …

These chemicals are the site of most drug actions. They are called transmitters. Transmitters help determine whether a neural event is excitatory or inhibitory. Excitatory transmitters increase neural activity. Inhibitory transmitters decrease neural activity. It is thought that your emotional tone is determined by transmitters. The amount of transmitter reaching certain nerve cells determines whether you have positive or negative feelings. Transmitters stimulate muscle cells. Too little transmitter and you can’t move. Too much transmitter and you have a seizure.

These generalizations are just a few of the functions of transmitters. Hope it encourages you to read more about them. Lot’s of stuff on line.

You have a set of genes (OPN1LW, OPN1MW, OPN1SW) that cause light sensitive proteins to form, called opsins. These opsins work a little like film, and change form with some probability when hit by a photon of some frequency. The specific frequencies and probabilities are different between the three proteins, giving rise (roughly) to Red, Green, and Blue sensitivity.

The pipeline goes electrical pretty much immediately, as chemical transmission is on the scale of seconds while neuro-electrical is micro to milliseconds depending on how you’re measuring. Color vision looks something like:

Opsin folds
Cone cell signals local nerve clusters (ganglion cells)
Local nerves feed into optic nerve, signal transformed from “LMS” to “YUV” (brightness, red v green, orange v blue)
Optic nerve routed to occipital lobe, shapes and patterns identified

At this point, you stop “seeing”, and you’re more dreaming. You have a big mess of sensory data, and you figure out some unified view that matches with it. It’s in here that Hue exists — there really isn’t a “Red, Green, and Blue” as an aspect of physical reality.

Electrical work isn’t exactly separate from chemicals, it’s just that instead of physically moving an object from point A to point B, chemicals are manipulated so that their electrons bash into the next molecule over. That sort of chain reaction is very, very fast.

How many bacteria (say, water bears) would need to be in a pile in order for them to be visible to our eyes, even though we may not see such fine details?

First, water bears (aka tardigrades)

Tardigrades are quite large when compared to bacteria. At maturity they are about half a millimeter (500 microns) long. They can be readily seen with a 10x magnifying glass. Sometimes they can also be seen by the naked eye if a person’s vision is excellent and the conditions are ideal.

Bacteria, on the other hand, ranges from .2 to 10 microns.

The smallest object recognizable to the human eye is about 55–75 microns.

At a viewing distance of 16" = ~ 400 mm, which is considered a normal reading distance in the USA, the smallest object resolution will be ~ 0.116 mm. For inspection purposes laboratories use a viewing distance of 200–250 mm, which gives the smallest size of the object recognizable to the naked eye of ~0.058- 0.072 mm(~55-75 micrometers). The accuracy of a measurement ranges from 0.1 to 0.3 mm and depends on the experience of the observer.

That means you’d need a pile of about 36 of the largest type of bacteria to have any chance of being seen by the human eye. A cube 6x6x6 bacteria square would make a pile approximately 60 microns, which falls in the middle of the smallest range visible.

This is all theoretical, however, and I have doubts about how well it would work. I suspect other factors might interfere with bacteria visibility. Just a hunch, though. Maybe some other Quoran has experience with bacteria piling and can share their firsthand experience.

Author note: my math skills are sketchy at best. Someone may want to spot my calculations.

Footnotes

It’s quite literally a quantum leap in terms of evolution and adaptation. (1) Bacteria can exchange genetic material very easily - not just small amounts either. (2) Bacteria reproduce extremely quickly - the doubling time for E. coli, for example, is said to be around 20 minutes (at 37 °C).

We simply can’t get our heads around this sort of genomic fluidity. There’s even a problem with what a species means, but it’s certainly not the same thing as our understanding for plants and animals for which the term was originally conceived.

For the microbial world, the terms core genome and pan genome are being used to think about species or rather taxonomic groups. Strains within the same group share a core set of genes, but the complete genome for any individual strain includes a set of ‘accessory’ genes that may be very different across the group.

We often hear that chimpanzees and humans share 99% of their genes. So in this example, the core genome would represent 99% of the genes with 1% for the extra genes marking the differences between us.

For E. coli, a recent analysis by Yang et al. (2018) looked at 491 strains and determined an average pan genome of 43,415 genes. They established that the core genome comprised 867 genes (of which 243 could be classed as ‘essential’). 867 genes is just less than 2%.

[You’d be interested to know that yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) shares 23% of its genes with humans!]

It is a remarkably successful world. Bacteria are floating in the air, they are found on the surface of the earth from pole to pole. They can make a living miles deep into the earth and they have found ways to metabolize and find food in three memorable ways — by developing biochemical pathways to metabolize in atmospheres or places lacking oxygen, by metabolizing using biochemical pathways that produce abundant energy by using oxygen to generate that energy, and by acting as parasites on other organisms to produce diseases. They also produced a branch of prokaryotes called archaea that live in extremes of pressure and temperature and they produced eukaryotic cells shifting into endosymbiotic relation with other prokaryotes to produce Eukaryota. Summing up in sheer numbers, varieties of environments, and variety of ways to live, bacteria are the most successful form of life. We humans have only lived a small fraction of the time that bacteria have been around and we don’t even know if we can survive the technological inventions of our own wits.

Actually bacteria can talk with eachother using so called quorum sensing molecules. These are chemical molecules that can be recognized by specific receptors on the bacteria and so communication is facilitated. Also the concentration of these quorum sensing molecules are very important in the communication process. Today scientists are studying this way of chemical communication and if we understand how it works, we could actually influence this system by artificially adding quorum sensing molecules in places where bacteria live. This is also a possible treatment for bacterial infections as we could influence the infection by disruption or altering their communication with eachother.

Bacteria communicate with one another using chemical signal molecules. Such chemical communication involves producing, releasing, detecting, and responding to small hormone-like molecules termed autoinducers . And the process, also called quorum sensing, allows bacteria to monitor the environment for other bacteria and to alter behavior on a population-wide scale in response to changes in the number and/or species present in a community. Most quorum-sensing-controlled processes are unproductive when undertaken by an individual bacterium acting alone but become beneficial when carried out simultaneously by a large number of cells. Thus, quorum sensing confuses the distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes because it enables bacteria to act as multicellular organisms.

Here is a slightly magnified image of the largest bacteria currently known, next to a dime.

It isn’t easy to see because of how thin it is, but it is just barely big enough to be visible to the naked eye.

• Crystal violet enhance the contrast between microorganisms itself and the slide.Hence,make bacteria easy to find.

Most molecular forces can be imagined pretty easily with only electric forces. Different atoms are more or less electronegative, and so pull on and electron with more or less strength. A very electronegative atom such as oxygen hangs onto its electrons very strongly, and can easily take electrons from other atoms. It can be imagined a very buff/greedy person roping in the electrons.

A covalent bond between 2 oxygen happens when they both try to steal electrons from each other. Picture two oxygen molecules with arms gripping pulling at 2 electrons from the other oxygen. The electrons are tightly bounded/hoarded to the other oxygen and it won't give them up so the oxygens are strongly stuck to each other. Similarly for other covalent bonds.

With an ionic bond, the "strong" or electronegative atom "steals" electrons off of the less electronegative atom. It's too weak to get them back so it hangs around hoping.