BLG 144 Lecture 4: BLG 144: Week 4 Day 2

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The size range of bacteria, and archaea is enormous. The vast majority of bacteria are actually beneficial to us. Use them to clean up nasty contaminants. There is not a huge diversity in shape. They do all kinds of things metabolically. They can handle compounds, process that we can"t handle. Without (cid:373)i(cid:272)ros, we would(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:271)reathi(cid:374)g the o(cid:454)(cid:455)ge(cid:374) that we are (cid:271)reathi(cid:374)g (cid:374)ow. Archaea are more closely related to us than bacteria. Bacteria had all the resources available only for them for 1. 7 years. They diversified to take advantage for all the energies that were out there. Bacterial cells help protect us against pathogenic bacteria. There are more bacterial cells in and on us than human cells. We are still finding new phyla of bacteria. Bacteria can get entry into our body at certain points. The organism has to be isolated from the sick individual.

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