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More than half of our antibiotics are produced by species of streptomyces, filamentous bacteria that commonly inhibit soil.
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What medicines fight microbes?
Microbes are tiny organisms that cannot be seen by the human eye. There are microbes that are good for you and microbes that are bad for you. Everyone has an immune system, which is a bodily function that defends your body from bad microbes. the immune system is not an organ but its in your bloodstream and most of your organs. In your immune system there are things called antibodies which kill bad microbes. When you have medicines and jabs, there are bad microbes inside the medicines/jabs. They always put in quite mild bad microbes though, so it doesn't make you ill but does prepare the antibodies so if they see the same kind of bad microbes again they will be able to kill them faster, giving you less chance of catching the disease.For example, in the smallpox jab they give you the smallpox that cows get (yes, cows can get smallpox too). But humans can't actually get ill from having small amounts of cow smallpox injected into them, because our antibodies can kill cow smallpox microbes easily. But when the antibodies kill the cow smallpox microbes, they remember them, so if you ever get human smallpox microbes inside you, the antibodies will remember how they killed the cow smallpox microbes and kill the smallpox microbes in the same way. Because they have already killed the same thing before, they will kill them quicker, giving you much less chance of the smallpox microbes getting through your immune system and giving you the disease.As humans are eukaryotes, our genome is extremely difficult to truly decode due to processes such as exon shuffling, the genetic "junk" and likely dozens of other observed aspects of our genome.Naturally, many people with genetic defects need a constant supply of medicines (diabetics will be used from here on out in this section). Creating insulin in a lab was very difficult before the onset of cDNA, which (long story made really really short) is placing the human insulin gene into yeast or another simple eukaryote. Thankfully, all eukaryotic cells "know" how to process our genome and human hormones can be made in vivo in laboratories in greater quantity than ever before.
Industrially important microbes?
Microbes are important industrially to make food, clean oil spills and lots of other things. Yeast is one microbe that makes food and alcohol. T. aquaticus makes an enzyme that crime labs use to break up small amounts of DNA and then they can test it.
What kingdom is most bacteria apart of?
Microbes
What are microbial agents?
Antimicrobial agents are compounds that inhibit or kill microbes or microorganims, e.g bacteria and fungi. Antimicrobial agents can be chemicals or biological in compostion. Chemical based antimicrobial agents are antibiotics where are biological based are antimicrobial peptides. Antimicrobial agents inhibit or kill microbes by breaking there cell wall or inhibiting some metabolism or bind to DNA and prevent the replication, thus stopping the multiplication of the microbes in the body
What is the term that means free from microbes in the human body?
This term is antisepsis. Most of the human body, internally is free of microbes. But not all. The mouth and esophagus have normal microbes as does the upper respiratory tract including the nose. The lower portion of the digestive tract, very low in the urinary tract and the genital tracts there are normal microbes.
How did the study of microbes enable us to develop antibiotics?
Some bacteria, most notably species in the genus Streptomyces and Actinomycetes produce antibiotics as secondary metabolites. Aside from bacteria, some fungi such as Penicillium produce antibiotics as well. Scientists were then able to purify the antibiotics produced from the microbes for clinical purposes.
What is natural habitat of most antibiotic-producing microorganism?
Antibiotics are produced by those organisms that want to gain an advantage over other microbes for the availability of nutrients, by eliminating competition. So they are bound to occur in places where there is a high concentration of different and varied types of microbes. Soil is an excellent habitat for such microbes.
What type of microorganism produces most of the known antibiotics?
#1- A fungus does this to secure a food source and living space for itself and its descendants, rather than letting bacteria use the food source and degrade the living space with bacterial waste. #2- To keep microbes from harming them
Are most microbes are harmless?
no
Are most microbes harmless?
no
What medicines fight microbes?
Microbes are tiny organisms that cannot be seen by the human eye. There are microbes that are good for you and microbes that are bad for you. Everyone has an immune system, which is a bodily function that defends your body from bad microbes. the immune system is not an organ but its in your bloodstream and most of your organs. In your immune system there are things called antibodies which kill bad microbes. When you have medicines and jabs, there are bad microbes inside the medicines/jabs. They always put in quite mild bad microbes though, so it doesn't make you ill but does prepare the antibodies so if they see the same kind of bad microbes again they will be able to kill them faster, giving you less chance of catching the disease.For example, in the smallpox jab they give you the smallpox that cows get (yes, cows can get smallpox too). But humans can't actually get ill from having small amounts of cow smallpox injected into them, because our antibodies can kill cow smallpox microbes easily. But when the antibodies kill the cow smallpox microbes, they remember them, so if you ever get human smallpox microbes inside you, the antibodies will remember how they killed the cow smallpox microbes and kill the smallpox microbes in the same way. Because they have already killed the same thing before, they will kill them quicker, giving you much less chance of the smallpox microbes getting through your immune system and giving you the disease.As humans are eukaryotes, our genome is extremely difficult to truly decode due to processes such as exon shuffling, the genetic "junk" and likely dozens of other observed aspects of our genome.Naturally, many people with genetic defects need a constant supply of medicines (diabetics will be used from here on out in this section). Creating insulin in a lab was very difficult before the onset of cDNA, which (long story made really really short) is placing the human insulin gene into yeast or another simple eukaryote. Thankfully, all eukaryotic cells "know" how to process our genome and human hormones can be made in vivo in laboratories in greater quantity than ever before.
Industrially important microbes?
Microbes are important industrially to make food, clean oil spills and lots of other things. Yeast is one microbe that makes food and alcohol. T. aquaticus makes an enzyme that crime labs use to break up small amounts of DNA and then they can test it.
What kingdom is most bacteria apart of?
Microbes
Most effective weapons against cholera?
Antibiotics
What does the stomach contain to defend your body against microbes?
The stomach contains acids that defend your body against microbes. Most of these microbes are destroyed once they are digested and enter into the acidic stomach.
Do microbes ever die?
Yes. Microbes are living microscopic organisms, most are one-celled but not all, and they do die. In the case of all types of microbes, except viruses, they can be killed or die. For example, when we take antibiotics for a bacterial infection, we are killing the bacteria and then our immune system cleans up. Viruses are somewhere in between a living organism and a chemical structure, they can be destroyed with antiviral medications or by our immune systems but that destruction is not technically a death. For this reason, some scientists do not include the viruses in the classification of microorganisms but most do include them. Obviously the microscopic animals (protozoa, for example), the microscopic plants (like green algae), and the other microbes that are all living organisms can in turn die or be killed.
How do doctors treat a patient with a bacterial infection?
Most bacterial infections are treatable because most bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics. i.e. Antibiotics kill the bacteria without killing the patient. The other common form of infections, viruses are much harder to "kill" without harming the patient. Antiviral drugs are making progress but they still have a long way to go before they are as effective as antibiotics.
