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Bacteria

Bacteria are a large domain of single-celled, prokaryote microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals.

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What does the bacteria on our skin?

no, unless the immune system is compromised

What shape are vibrio?

The Vibrio genus contains motile, Gram-negative bacteria that are obligate aerobes. Vibrio have a recognizable curved rod-like shape and a single polar flagella located on the ends of the vibrio. Although Vibrio species are non-invasive pathogens, they cause some of the most serious cases of diarrhea and thousands of people die from infection annually.

Do bacteria reproduce by mitosis?

Yes. Bacterial reproduction most commonly occurs by a kind of cell division called binary fission. Binary fission results in the formation of two bacterial cells that are genetically identical.

Binary fission is an effective way for bacteria to reproduce, however it does produce problems.

Through bacterial recombination, bacteria can gain genetic variation by incorporating genes from other bacteria.

Is pathogenic bacteria capable of causing infection?

Bacteria can be pathogens, but there are also many other types of pathogens. Bacteria are specific types of single celled organisms. Some bacteria cause disease, some do not. There are also lots of other types of organisms which can cause disease. These include, viruses, fungi, protozoa, yeast. Any organism that can cause disease is called a pathogen. (And yes, there is some debate about whether a virus is an organism. If it is not an organism then it would be classified as a toxin rather than a pathogen.)

How much bacteria is on the tongue?

According to Wikipedia, only 1013 cells in the human body are human cells. The rest, out of 1014, are bacteria. This gives a total of around 9 x 1013 or 90 trillion bacteria.

What is an infection of the lungs caused by a bacteria or virus?

Viral infections of the lungs spread by way of infected air. The infected patient sneezes or coughs to push the millions of virus particles in the air. This infected air is taken in by others. Few of them catch the infection.

What are the two ways bacteria make food?

by sunlight or by using nutrients around them (if sunlight isn't available)

Is making vitamins one of the roles of bacteria that live in human bodies?

Bacteria in the gut play a major role in digestion. In some cases, the bacteria consume the food and transform it into a form the body can digest. This happens with the digestion of celery.

Are bacteria found in humans?

Bacteriophges do not infect humans. They only infect the bacteria they are specific to. Once they have destroyed all of the bacteria they have infected, your immune system efficiently removes the bacteriophages from your system. Bacteriophages are self-limiting and harmless to humans. Peggy Steele

How does the body react to harmful bacteria?

alveolar macrophages crawl freely along internal alveolar surfaces

Why do bacteria make their own food?

Some bacteria(not all) are autotrophic bacteria which means that they can make their own food.These bacteria can be separated into two groups

  1. photosynthetic bacteria
  2. chemosynthetic bacteria
  • photosynthetic bacteria contains bacteriochlorophyll which is dispersed in their cytoplasm and so they are able to make their organic food by the process of photosynthesis.e.g green sulphur bacteria,purple sulphur bacteria etc
  • chemosynthetic bacteria oxidize inorganic compounds like ammonia,nitrate,nitrite,sulphur or iron and trap the energy and prepare their food.e.g nitrifying bacteria are chemosynthetic.

What was the first type of bacteria on earth?

the first type of cells on the early earth were prokaryote cells.

Is lactic acid bacteria a bacteria?

Yes, lactic acid bacteria are a type of bacteria that produce lactic acid as a byproduct of their metabolism. They are commonly used in food fermentation processes and are known for their beneficial effects on gut health.

What year was when the first bacteria cells appeared?

The first bacteria cell description was first describe by Antony van Leeuwenhoek in a letter wrote to the Royal Society of London on September 17, 1683.

''a little white matter, which is as thick as if 'twere batter." He repeated these observations on two ladies (probably his own wife and daughter), and on two old men who had never cleaned their teeth in their lives. Looking at these samples with his microscope, Leeuwenhoek reported how in his own mouth: "I then most always saw, with great wonder, that in the said matter there were many very little living animalcules, very prettily a-moving. The biggest sort. . . had a very strong and swift motion, and shot through the water (or spittle) like a pike does through the water. The second sort. . . oft-times spun round like a top. . . and these were far more in number." In the mouth of one of the old men, Leeuwenhoek found "an unbelievably great company of living animalcules, a-swimming more nimbly than any I had ever seen up to this time. The biggest sort. . . bent their body into curves in going forwards. . . Moreover, the other animalcules were in such enormous numbers, that all the water. . . seemed to be alive." These were among the first observations on living bacteria ever recorded.''

In reality, many people in earlier time could have seen bacteria as a biofilm like cyanobacterial blooms without knowing what it was...

But the first single bacterium cell seen and repertoried was on September 17, 1683 by Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the father of the microscopy.

How do you destroy bacteria in food?

Five ways: Pickling, Salting, Drying, Cooking or Radiation

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If you want to DESTROY the bacteria rather then just prevent them form multiplying then there are just 3 of the above that will do it.

Pickling, Cooking and Radiation.

Salting and Drying (and to some extent smoking) do not kill the bacteria, they preserve food by creating an environment that prevents the bacteria from multiplying.

Does Bacillus subtilis grow in MacConkey broth?

Bacillus subtilis is grown on nutrient agar or in nutrient broth. The preferred medium is M9 with glucose.

What requires the use of an autoclave?

I think ther is only one way to use any particular autoclave product. However, if you are inquiring about things which can be sterilized in an autoclave--: Dental instruments, medical instruments, barber and beautician implements, veterinary implements, eating utensils are all some. To sterilize medical instruments

What organism would be considered a decomposer?

Organisms that are characterized as decomposers are organisms like bacteria. These organisms will also typically include protozoans and sporozoans.

What kingdom is decomposer bacteria in?

Decomposer bacteria is in the kingdom Eubacteria.

Why do we study bacteria?

We study bacteria so that we can figure how fast they grow in different environments and temperatures and the different changes that the enzymes and proteins go through to be resistant to certain medication. . This helps scientists that study bacteria to figure out how to prevent that disease.

Is bacteria offspring identical or different to the parent cell?

cause there is parts of the parents DNA in the smaller ones

Do vaccines destroy beneficial bacteria?

NO

They only set your body up to defend, against them if they havn't encounterd the threat before.

If you allready have it than it to late to vacinate.

Matthew Morgan

To be more spefic they kill viruses