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Bacteria Fun Facts:. 99% of Bacteria are helpful: help with digestion, used to make food, break down oil spills, purify water at sewage treatment plants
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Bacteria Fun Facts: • 99% of Bacteria are helpful: help with digestion, used to make food, • break down oil spills, purify water at • sewage treatment plants • 90% of the cells in/on your body are bacteria. • Scientists estimate bacteria produce nearly ½ of oxygen found in • atmosphere • One square inch of skin contains more than a half a million bacteria
The bacterium explodes after it is forced to make copies of the virus! The virus is about to attack the bacterium. The virus injects its genetic material into the bacterium. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpj0emEGShQ
Nostoc Oscillatoria 400 x- cocci shaped but in a sheath causing them appear rod shaped 400 x- cocci shaped - Produce food in lakes and ponds - In large amounts can cause death to life in lake due to consuming all oxygen