Sunday, February 24, 2019

The invisible world of Microbes

          Microbes might be tiny and hard to see, but they account for a large percentage of Earth's biodiversity. They have been living on the planet for 3.8 billion years compared to 200,000 for humans, and for most of the Earth’s existence, they have been the only form of life around. In fact, all life on Earth today, including trees and fish and people, is thought to have evolved from the earliest microbes.
          The term “microbe” describes bacteria, archaea, single-celled eukaryotic organisms such as amoebas, slime molds, and parameciums, and even viruses by some broad definitions. Most microbes are unicellular, meaning one cell comprises each individual. They are found almost everywhere on Earth, in soils, plants, geysers, ocean depths, frigid seas below Antarctic ice and in our bodies. (Trillions of bacteria have been found in our guts.) Some microbes, called extremophiles, are found in places where no other living organisms can survive in boiling hot hydrothermal vents in the ocean and in rocks deep underground.
       They can be helpful and/or harmful to other living things: bacteria such as Streptococcus and E. coli can infect and even kill humans, and algal blooms can be toxic to fish and deplete the water of oxygen, but other bacteria help us digest our food and replenish nutrients in soil, and some can help clean up oil spills.
          Scientists are continually discovering new species, genera, families, and orders of microbes, with no end in sight. Because they have been around for so long, microbes evolve in more complicated ways than multicellular life—they can transfer genes between species and from one individual to another, something humans certainly can’t do.
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Saturday, February 23, 2019

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF MICROBIOLOGY

Hey Hello everyone, Myself Rutuja Patankar from India, a microbiologist. This is going to be my first blog so I introduced myself.

So many of you might have a heard a lot about microbes but mostly the negative part but there are many good things to know about microbes. So in my further blog, I m going to introduce you all about microbes (OUR FRIENDS😃) and also many interesting facts, various concepts in Microbiology, various research work going on and also about microbiology as a profession.

Hope so you will enjoy this world of microbes.

So let's start with some fun, see images below 😆.