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picoplankton (s) (noun), picoplankton (pl)
Tiny plant or animal organisms ranging in size from 0.2 to 2.0 micrometers: Picoplankton are important in making up a meaningful part of the complete biomass of the phytoplankton population.

The cells of the picoplankton can be prokaryotic and eukaryotic phototrophs and heterotrophs.

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
— Augustus de Morgan, noting the expanding scales of life and their connections.
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