Microorganism
* All microorganism have the potential to develop resistance to germicides.
* All microorganisms are harmful to humans
  - decompose decayed vegetation or other microorganisms
* Every microorganism has a very short life.
* Many microorganisms also get their food from the tree.
* Many microorganisms are capable of ammonification
  - unicellular or single-celled but some are multicellular
  - can degrade aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons
  - find body fluids an attractive place to live
  - grow on common burdock, and two microorganisms have economic importance
* Many microorganisms produce antibiotics and toxins
  - asymptomatic, or subclinical, mastitis in milking sheep
  - release essential plant nutrients as they break down organic materials
  - use old dead stubs as springboards into the trunk
* Most microorganisms are harmless to humans.
* Most microorganisms break down matter
  - organic matter
* Most microorganisms cause animal diseases
  - infectious diseases
  - grow best at high levels of moisture
* Most microorganisms have ability
  - evolution
  - the potential to detoxify and reduce heavy metals to a non-toxic form
  - infect humans
* Most microorganisms live in environments
  - harsh environments
  - marine environments
  - within tissue
  - occur in water
  - produce nutrients
  - provide food
* Some microorganisms affect plants.
* Some microorganisms are able to metabolize peptides and more complex proteins
  - always present in the air, and some growth on a settling plate is normal
  - beneficial while some are harmful
  - eaten by other organisms
  - harmful to the body and can cause disease by destroying cells in the body
  - resistant to tannins
  - skilled in other ways in obtaining iron from human hosts
  - used to produce foods and chemicals
* Some microorganisms break down biomass
  - cellulose
  - indigestible cellulose
* Some microorganisms can be quite rich in astaxanthin
  - cause acute health problems when consumed in drinking water
  - grow in significantly lower temperatures and at lower RH levels
  - use fats as an energy source
* Some microorganisms cause acute gastroenteritis
  - blindness
  - diarrhea
  - diseases while others produce antibiotics that cure diseases
  - eye infection
  - food to spoil making it look, smell, or taste bad
  - illnesses
  - infectious gastroenteritis
  - meat to spoil
  - whole body infection
  - contain carbon
* Some microorganisms convert carbon dioxide
  - detoxify heavy metals by converting the metal to a volatile form
  - do require special processing
  - duplicate through budding e.g. yeast
  - enter blood
  - grow on surfaces
* Some microorganisms infect insects
  - wheat seeds
* Some microorganisms inhabit intestines
  - small intestines
  - tracts
* Some microorganisms live in tracts
  - love the heat
  - negatively affect the body
  - occur naturally
* Some microorganisms produce acid
  - enzymes
  - flavour compounds, complex polysaccharides or organic acids
  - methane
  - minor illnesses
  - pigment during growth and are said to be chromogenic.
  * are critical to nutrient recycling in ecosystems, because they act as decomposers. Because some microorganisms can also take nitrogen out of the air, they are an important part of the nitrogen cycle. Pathogenic, or harmful, microbes can invade other organisms and cause disease
* abound in animal intestinal tracts.
* again have the conditions which favor rapid growth.
* also contribute heavily to argricultural crop destruction
  - synthesize protein which is later digested by vertebrate
* are abundant in nature and the cause of most food-borne illness.
* are active in the composting process
  - organic substances in soil
  - adept in regulating the types and quantities of proteins formed
  - also major actors in soil food webs
  - always present in indoor environments
  - an essential part of Form five biology
  - antigenic, meaning they are capable of triggering the production of antibodies
  - central to understanding and defining long-term soil quality
* are classified into bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites
  - four major groups
  - components of every ecosystem on Earth
  - constantly under environmental stresses in their natural environment
* are critical to nutrient recycling in ecosystems , because they act as decomposers
  - ecosystems as they act as decomposers
  - crucial to the survival of life on Mars in the future
  - essential for all life because they decompose waste
* are essential to our life
  - the web of life in every environment
* are everywhere and are competing with one another
  - often contaminate raw agricultural food products
  - in nature and in human environments
  - germs that cause diseases
  - ideal for the large-scale production of enzymes
* are important in decay
  - the maintenance of an ecological balance on Earth
  - indispensible components of our ecosystems
  - intimately and intricately interwoven into our daily lives
* are key contributors to nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
  - to breaking down the rock mineral fertilizers to usable form for the plant
  - more active and digest materials faster in warm, moist, aerobic conditions
  - naturally present in the digestive systems of animals
* are often easier and less expensive to grow than multicellular organisms
  - responsible for the rapid spoilage of foods
  - placed in phagosomes where they are ultimately digested by lysosomes
  - present everywhere in the soil, in the water, in the air, on our bodies
* are present in all soils in varying amounts
  - the soil primarily attached to soil particles
  - problematic in other ways
* are responsible for getting rid the waste generated by industry and households
  - single-celled organisms such as bacteria, fungi and protozoa
  - small forms of plant and animal life, which break down the organic material
* are the cause of many infectious diseases
  - cornerstone of modern biotechnology and genetic engineering
  - living forms having more number of types on the earth
  - principal actors of composting
  - tiny living creatures, much too small to see with the naked eye
* are ubiquitous in nature
  - our environment
  - unable to break down organic matter in high alkaline soils
  - used to enrich the soil fertility
  - utilised for planning of unreactive group and enzymes
* are very beneficial to soils
  - important also as primary link of ecosystem
  - very small
* be to have a comparatively meteoric fertility rate of evolution.
* can be both beneficial and harmful
  - viruses, such as measles virus, or they can be bacteria
* change the color also by producing pigments themselves.
* control the earth's environment through an astonishing array of chemical processes.
* convert energy.
* decompose dead organisms and waste material from living organisms
  - the plant protein into amino acids and can liberate ammonium
* degrade protective coatings by producing organic acids and by excreting enzymes.
* depend on a specific enzyme to breathe.
* destroy pollutants after they are removed from the air stream by adsorption.
* develop resistance because something alters their structure or function.
* dominate the oceans where the macroscopic world is even less abundant than on land
  - planet in terms of total mass, species diversity, and metabolic range
* dramatically increase when gloves occlude the skin.
* eat the contaminant.
* enter the teat duct in several ways
  - uterus through several routes
* exhibit extraordinary genetic and phenetic diversity
  - many of the same metabolic pathways as multicellular organisms
* fall within all domains.
* feed on both the dissolved and suspended organic material in the wastewater.
* feed on organic matter and consume oxygen
  - produce polysaccharides
* grow by binary fission.
* have a direct impact on our daily lives
  - more flexibility than larger animals and greater mobility than plants
* includes cell membranes
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* inhabit guts.
* interact with minerals and perturb the geochemical environment.
* invades host.
* is an organism
* live and proliferate under special environmental conditions
  - everywhere in the ocean, from the deepest trenches to the high- est tide pools
* living in the rumen depend for their survival on the food that the animal eats.
* living in water and in soil also break down nitrobenzene
  - break down biphenyl to other chemicals
  - can also break down phthalic anhydride
  - within the root mat are essential in aiding the uptake of available minerals
* make nitrogen available to plants.
* metabolize and destroy contaminants
  - or break down tebuthiuron in the soil
* multiply in used detergent wash water
  - rapidly, allowing easier analysis
* now serve as models for the study of basic biological processes.
* offer a cheap way to clean up pollution.
* often get a bad press
  - grow in humidifiers which are equipped with tanks containing standing water
* play major roles in energy transformations and biogeochemical processes.
* present in the biofilm 'feed' from water that flows past
  - many mechanisms of metal tolerance
  - toxic byproducts derived from their use of oxygen
* range in complexity from single to multi-cellular organisms.
* reduce the nitrate if incomplete drying or rewetting occurs.
* release it as they break down organic material.
* represent a very varied group of organisms invisible to the naked eye.
* require a proper environment to work efficiently
  - certain basic nutrients for growth and maintenance of metabolic functions
* rule the world, as they have since life began.
* sense and adapt to changes in their environment.
* share many characteristics with all other types of cells.
* tend to be associated with only uncomfortable infections and diseases
  - host specific, to varying degrees
* therefore play an important role in biofouling as well as mussels and oyster farming.
* thrive in dark, wet, warm bedding
  - nutrient-rich water
* transform ammonia to nitrite and then nitrate through the process of nitrification
  - mineral nutrients and degrade dead organisms and detritus
* use light or chemical energy.
* use the carbon in leaves or woody wastes as an energy source
  - organic material as a source of energy
  - same basic genetic mechanisms as larger, more complex organisms
* vary in size.