Microorganisms | These little guys do a lot
These little guys do a lot
Tiny microorganisms are basically everywhere—in the air, in your body, in your cat's or dog's fur, and in the soil. Bacteria are the smallest single-celled organisms. To help us see them, today's microscopes can magnify subjects up to 2,000 times. That's ten times stronger than the microscope van Leeuwenhoek developed, which was quite an accomplishment for his time. We usually group all microorganisms together as disease-carrying germs, but many are important to life functions.
Microorganisms are categorized into five major groups: bacteria, such as salmonella; algae, such as blue-green algae; fungi, such as yeast; protistsMembers of the kingdom Protista, primarily single-celled...
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