• Question: How many organisms are in the world today?

    Asked by beach to Dave on 13 Jun 2011.
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      Dave Sproson answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hey,

      One of the biologists could probably answer this better than me, but as far as I’m aware we don’t really even have much idea how many different *species* of animals and plants there are on the planet. I think the number of individual organisms is more than we could ever hope to count!

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