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It makes bacteria the ultimate r-selected organism. They are small, thus requiring few nutrients, thus having a short life span and a fast rate at which they reproduce, so that an individual bacteria is incredibly weak, has low resistance, but a given species as a whole is incredibly strong, able to bounce back quickly from a cataclysm, has high resiliency.

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