What use do humans have for bacteria?

Answer 1

1. Bacteria used in food production. Lactobacter is used with milk to make yoghurt or cheeses.
2. Bacteria are used in the human gut to absorb vitamins, nutrients and to digest some carbohydrates that would otherwise not be digestible by humans.
3. Bacteria are used in industry to clean up waste. Bacteria that can feed on herbicides or pesticides can clean up ground water. Bacteria that feed on oil can help clean up oil spills. For cleaning up industrial waste D. radiodurans can be used. The radioactivity cannot be destroyed by the radioactivity resistant bacteria, but they can 'eat' all chemical toxic solvents in which these radioactive wastes are often present.

Answer 2

Firstly, bacteria can be harmful as well as benificial to humans. Since your question pertains only to benifiacial bacteria, the answer follows:-

Bacteria help humans by fuel, food, environmental recycling, environmental cleanup, and health and medicine.

Fuel- Gas For our Cars

Food- Yogurt, milk, cheese, etc

Environmental Recycling- Cleaning up major gas and oil spills

Health and Medicine- Antibiotics, any med. that ends in -sillen or -botics

Answer 3

There are more than five ways that bacteria are beneficial. Here are some:

Fermentation (makes bread, cheese, yogurt, beer)

Digestion

Kill other bacteria

Decomposition of waste

Research (a lot of research is done on model organisms like e. coli)

Regulating stomach acidity (h. pylori)

Answer 4

your body has bacteria in it naturally for good reasons. They are mainly found in the digestive tract and are used to help your body digest the nutrients in your body.

Answer 5

1. Some people eat bacteria 2. Some use bacteria for medicine or in medicine

Answer 6

I only know 2: 1) good bacteria helps your immune system 2) if the right amount of a disease is administered to the body, the bacteria can be used as a vaccine

Answer 7

persons use bacteria to make yogurt.
They also use bacteria to turn dirty salt water into clean drinkable water.


written by Simone Vickers
Jamaica.

Answer 8

it can make you die