What are microbes? Microbes are microscopic organisms that can be found everywhere. They cannot be seen by the naked eye however if you look through a microscope you can see what is everywhere without being noticed. There is four types of microbes: Bacteria, Protozoa, Fungi and Viruses, they either have a positive, neutral or negative effect. Some Good microbes are in Food, Decomposers and in the Gut. Bad microbes can cause diseases and infections. Without some microbes the world would not be able to function the way it does.
2. Types of Microbes
Bacteria
Bacteria is probably the most well known microbe. There is three types of bacteria: bacillus shaped as a rod(see fig 1), cocci shaped as sphere and spirilla shaped as a spiral. Bacteria can grow outside a host unlike viruses, bacteria grow in warm moist environments. In 1665 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe bacteria. Antibiotics are medical to kill bacteria inside the body, however Antibiotics are being over used and bacteria are becoming resistant.
Protozoa
Protozoa are single celled and commonly associated with animals. The four main groups of Protozoa are the ciliates, the flagellates, the sarcodina and the apicomplexans. They are named like that because they behave like microscopic animals, they hunt and feed on other microbes for their food source. Protozoa usually doesn't hurt humans however this microbe has one of the deadliest disease in the world Malaria, Malaria claims more than 800,000
Fungi are multi-celled organisms that form a third Kingdom of life, along with the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom.
Most micro-organisms need most of the things you and I need to flourish and grow - moisture, warmth and a source of nutrition - some (usually the most dangerous such as those responsible for some types of gangrene) can do without oxygen (anaerobic bacteria). They need a mode of spread (usually the unwashed or poorly washed hands of people or badly cleaned equipment/facilities or badly stored food) and a vulnerable person to invade.
Bacteria - are micro-organisms that consist of only one cell. Bacteria multiply by splitting themselves in two, which is called a binary fission. Because of this they can increase in number rapidly. The majority are harmless, but some can be pathogenic which results in bacterial infection occuring. Bacterial infections can be treated by using antibiotics. Bacteria can evolve a resistance to antibiotic e.g. MRSA. Some diseases caused by bacteria include tuberculosis, pneumonia, salmonella, tetanus and syphilis.
There are three domains of organisms, which are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. Domain Bacteria and Domain Archaea prokaryotes, and Domain Eukarya inevitably includes eukaryotes. Prokaryotes are the most abundant and able to adapt to many different environments. They do not contain a nucleus, circular DNA,
Microbiomes are made up of bacteria and refer to their collective genes while microbiota is microbes in a community. Rob Knight, one of the pioneers in doing research on microbiomes and how it affects health and disease, found that there are 100 trillion microbes that live within the human body. Scientist had to invent something they could see microbes with, that invention was the microscope. The microscope is more than three hundred years old. With the microscope they can use the scientific method with a petri dish with bacteria and see how microbes grow in the tissue culture.
Microbiology is a study of small living organisms that are hard to be seen without using the microscope; such as bacteria, archaea, viruses, and protozoa. Fungi are different, a majority are big enough for us to see. They’re all have a long history of living on Earth, the scientist also believes they are the first living things that are existing way before mammals or human. Those microorganisms are everywhere around us, some are harmless and some can cause serious diseases. The condition and environment are different for every microorganism, some can live in the cold and a few can live in an area where hardly any living things can survive in. However, the bacteria that I found the most interesting in is Alcaligenes faecalis bacterium because
Archaea are a group of single celled prokaryotic, so they don 't contain a nucleus. Archaea live in water especially salty region, and also come from animal stomachs. Archaea are also different from bacteria. Eubacteria are many different cells which belong to the group of prokaryotes. Eubacteria also have different types of shapes such as spirals and spheres. Eukarya are organisms that have cells with nucleus. The examples are protist, animal, fungi, and plants. Protista is part of eukarya that isn 't fungus, plant, or animal. Fungi are single and multi celled eukarya organisms that have cell walls, and they get nutrients by cellular digestion. Plantae is from the domain
The era of microbiology dates back to seventeenth century when Antonie van Leeuwenhoek for the first time provided the evidence for the existence of prokaryotes. The prokaryotes constitute the domains Archaea and Bacteria and consists of million of species. Being the first one to inhabit the Earth about 3.8 billion years ago, prokaryotes represent a large unnoticed portion of the Earth’s biota. The earlier evolution of prokaryotes in contrast to eukaryotes had led to their extraordinary diversity and survival in different habitats. Microbial diversity, in its simpler form, can be represented as the sum of all different microbial species in an environment. It denotes the presence of ‘microbially living forms’ in a defined area. This diversity
Bacteria are prokaryotes which have no nucleus, organelles, or a cytoskeleton. They are ingle micro cells and can be found everywhere. In addition, very diverse environments ranging from cold to hot and alkaline to acid. They have two major compartments which are the cytoplasm and the cell envelope, also have exterior appendages. Antibiotics are a medicine that inhabits the growth or destroys microorganisms. Bacteria also has two major types of prokaryotes: bacteria and archaea.
Every second of our lives, we run into microbes of all varieties. We encounter numerous types of viruses and bacteria just walking in our own homes. Scientists and Microbiologists are still discovering millions of microbes each and every day. How can one not believe in a creator when there are so many tiny things that are swarming around us each day? Bacteria is everywhere. Good bacteria are allowing life cycles to continue, where bad bacteria are trying to throw those cycles off track. The Lord so intricately designed microbes for specific purposes. They each do different things, causing life to be the way it is. Each microbe has a different effect on our lives. The vast amount of things the Lord uses microbes for is amazing. He made microbes that decompose garbage, microbes that can eat flesh, microbes that can fight other microbes in the body and so many more! The Lord causes the function of the microbes for all biogeochemical cycles. In this paper I will be discussing two different microbes. One microbe being medically related to life and then the second being an environmental microbe. Each of these has a different effect on life of some type. So, let’s begin.
Microorganisms form part of our normal flora, however they can become pathogens where their main role is to survive and multiply, often at the expense of the host. Pathogens cause infectious diseases depending on their virulence; this was first realised when Louis Pasteur discovered microbes contaminated wine, causing it to go sour. He wondered how microbes affected humans; however it was Robert Koch that linked the contamination of microbes to the cause of infectious diseases. Between them they discovered and identified many of the microbes that caused diseases. Bacteria, Fungi, Virus and protozoan are all agents that cause infectious diseases. Infectious diseases can be asymptomatic for a long period of time before symptoms are apparent,
Microbiology is a huge subject that encompasses a wide variety of subtopics dealing with the microscopic organisms, such as viruses, prions, and bacteria, that can cause diseases or live in our body to actually aid us. Microbiology deals with studying these microbes and determining how their interactions with other living things, such as the environment, humans, animals, and plants, affect them. Through these studies, our understanding of life is
Microorganisms, or microbes, and single-celled organisms exist within all niche ecosystems found without the world. They have been found to cluster together, living in highly complex assemblages instead of existing on their own, interacting on many different levels with symbiotic relationships being formed. Biofilm is one such example of this assemblage behaviour. Through synergistic symbiotic relations, microbes congregate to form a matrix-enclosed microbial accretion which can adhere to either a biological or nonbiological surface (Hall-Stoodley, Costerton, & Stoodley, 2004). Biofilms can be found throughout a diverse range of different environments and first appear in the fossil record very early at approximately 3.25 billion years ago, being formed from highly varied ranges of both prokaryotic archaea and bacteria (Hall-Stoodley, Costerton, & Stoodley, 2004). Even though there are many different types, the main focuses are on both infectious biofilms and built environment biofilms, as these are the most directly impacting. Multiple processes are present such as syntrophy, signalling and coordination with structure and emergent order; make these assemblages incredibly structurally tough and dynamic. The stages of development, from motility to fixing a position, expansion and finally dispersal, display numerous different signalling and regulation pathways, making them highly complex and one of the main factors that sparked recent research.
Microbes are any organism that can’t be seen with the naked eye. They can be classified as bacteria, protists, fungi and sometimes even parasites. Many different types of microbes can exist within a community, which means that they have the potential to have a high species diversity (Reece et. al. 2014). Found virtually anywhere, microbes can range from being very beneficial for the environment to being
Microbiology is the biological study of organisms that are too small to be seen with the naked eye (1). Microbiology includes examining a variety of different microbes such as bacteria, archaea, protozoa, fungi and viruses (1). By examining these microbes, their relationship with people and the environment they grow in, is better understood. These examinations of microbes have played a major role in comprehending how microbes can be helpful and harmful, and how they should best be dealt with. With new and emerging discoveries in microbiology, medical treatments have expanded. By integrating the understanding of microbes in the field of medicine, finding cures to combat harmful diseases, such as HIV, can be better developed.