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AnswerThere are a lot of bacteria all over the world that affect the environment and the creatures that live within them, including humans. Estimating their number, though, is both difficult and largely meaningless. For example, even a simple infection on one person (such as an infected cut), may contain billions of separate bacteria. trying to estimate quantities worldwide would involve numbers that are simply too large to be useful.
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more than 1/4 than you already have

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Is bacteria all around us all the time?

Bacteria is everywhere. Nobody can take away bacteria


How do bacteria in your bodies protect us from harm?

Bacteria is all around us, in our bodies and on our bodies. It is in part that these natural flora keeps us healthy. They do this in one way by out-competing other harmful bacteria for nutrients. If the harmful bacteria cannot get nutrients for food, they cannot survive.


How is bacteria useful to us?

This is a multifaceted subject. Concisely stated, we CANNOT survive as a species without bacteria. They are all around us and ON us. Bacteria living on our skin protect us from external pathogens by fighting off virulent agents, e.g. harmful bacteria that can cause skin infection, fungi, parasites. They also maintain healthy skin pH levels. The bacteria in our digestive tract also protect us from pathogens, aid our digestion, and they also participate in the synthesis of various vitamins. These bacteria in and on our bodies are symbiotic (we are mutually beneficial to each other), and they are ESSENTIAL for human life. Aside from that type of bacteria, other types are used industrially: food production (cheeses and other foods requiring fermentation), alcohol production, creation of certain medicines, etc.


Which of these is an example of how bacteria are beneficial?

Humans have E.coli in our intestines to help us form certain vitamins. Our skin has normal flora on it that outcompete the "bad" bacteria. Plants need bacteria to fix nitrogen for them. There are many examples.


Does having bacteria in your bodies make us sick?

no, unless you have a lot of bad bacteria in your body then yes

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How much bacteria is in a garbage can?

There are billions of different types of bacteria all around us.


How do bacteria in your bodies protect us from harm?

Bacteria is all around us, in our bodies and on our bodies. It is in part that these natural flora keeps us healthy. They do this in one way by out-competing other harmful bacteria for nutrients. If the harmful bacteria cannot get nutrients for food, they cannot survive.


Why you are not able to see many types of organism which are present around us?

Because they are too small for the human eye to process.


What are some ways that bacteria can help the environment?

(i) De composer bacteria help in decomposing matter in the soil. (ii) It helps to maintain fertility in soil. (iii) Bacteria like cyanobacteria help in nitrogen fixation.


How do bacteria develop in food?

Bacteria are almost always all around us, incl in our food, but at such low levels that they're not a problem. But if you give bacteria good growing conditions, they increase in numbers until they can make us sick.


No oxygen is present?

Oxygen is present because you can breath it, and it is all around us, but you can not see it. So in some cases it isn't present, but in most it is present.


How many states do the US have at the present?

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It help us in many different ways like they digest our food they give us witamin K they find the bad bacteria


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What does bacteria in milk cause?

Bacteria in milk gives you Crohn's diease.Bacteria are around us everywhere. Bacteria live around us, on us, andinside us. Bacteria in milk can come from the cow, or get in to the milkafter it leaves the cow. A process called "pasteurization" kills some of thebacteria to make the milk last longer before it spoils.The exact cause of Crohn's disease is not known. So it's not quite right tosay that milk, or bacteria in milk 'cause' Crohn's disease. Eating milk orother foods might make some people with Crohn's disease sick, but the causeof the disease is still not fully understood by scientists.The bacteria in milk are beneficial in a lot of ways -- bacteria make milkproducts like cheese. Bacteria in our guts help to keep us healthy bykeeping disease-causing bacteria out. In cows, bacteria help digest thegrass they eat. There are tons of ways bacteria are helpful, and these arejust a few!