TAMAYO, JOY MAE O.

BSN1-G MAY 13, 2021

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD OF MICROBES

Microbes can be little and hard to see, however, they add to a huge segment of
Earth's biodiversity. They have been on the planet for 3.8 billion years, compared
to 200,000 for humans, and have been the only source of life for the majority of the
Earth's history.
Clearly, all current life on Earth, including plants, fish, and people, is considered to
have advanced from the earliest microbes.
"Microorganism" addresses microbes, archaea, single-celled eukaryotic organic
entities like one-celled critters, sludge molds, and parameciums, and even
infections. Most organisms are unicellular, which means one cell involves in
humans.
They can be discovered almost everywhere on the Earth, from soils, trees,
fountains, sea waters, icy-cold seas under Antarctic ice, and our bodies. Trillions of
microbes have been found. Extremophile microorganisms are found in conditions
where no other living species can live, for example, extremely hot aqueous vents in
the sea and deep underground rocks
Microorganisms like Streptococcus and E. coli might be beneficial at the same
time poisonous to other living creatures. Although E. coli can contaminate and
even annihilate humans, and algal sprouts can be harmful to fish and diminish
oxygen levels in the water, a few microscopic organisms assist us with retaining
food and recharge supplements in the dirt, and others can clean up oil spills.
Scientists and researchers are constantly finding new species, genuses, families,
and orders of microbes, with no end in sight. Since they have been around for such
a long time, microbes advance in more complicated ways than multicellular life—
they can pass through genes between species and starting with one individual then
onto the next, something people surely can't do.
In conclusion, understanding the world of microbes is critical which also leads in
understanding how ecosystems function, how to combat disease and how
infectious diseases, such as bird flu, emerge and spread.