World of bacteria - interesting things

Bacteria eat everything. The cyanobacteria that have the 'favorite' dish are water and then release oxygen into the air. This is the oldest fossilized bacterium on earth.

Strange interesting things about bacteria

Where on earth without bacteria? In the land, water, air, volcanoes to the deep sea, there is the presence of extremely small 'sticks'. It is the most ancient and crowded 'resident' on this earth. In the vast world of bacteria contains so many interesting things.

Be everywhere and eat everything

Antony Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see the bacterium in 1683 with a homemade microscope. Today, scientists have confirmed that in 1 liter of seawater there are more than 20,000 different types of bacteria. Our whole body is a ' giant base' for billions of bacteria.

Each person's skin is the 'land' of more than 100 million resident bacteria. They are in the intestine, nose, mouth, in the air, human food, drinking water. There was a researcher who exclaimed: ' So the world around us is all bacteria!'

Bacteria eat everything.Cyanobacteria eat . water and release oxygen into the air. The photosynthetic bacteria are specialized in eating light. Others like sulfur, hydrogen or many other inorganic substances. There are groups of bacteria that prefer organic types such as sugar, organic acids . or nutrients such as nitrogen, vitamins, or metal elements such as magnesium, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, nickel .

Antony Van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to see the bacterium in 1683 with a homemade microscope (Photo: berkeley.edu)

Scientists have discovered a number of star-shaped bacteria, living on the sea floor and just like to eat oil. There are bacteria that like to eat soil and release gold.

Unlimited tolerance

Bacteria with seemingly unlimited tolerance. If humans are in a temperature of approximately 100 degrees Celsius, they will surely ripen after a few minutes. But some types of bacteria prefer to live in craters with high temperatures above 100 degrees Celsius. These types of bacteria like to 'practice knitting' are like those of heat-resistant bacteria.

The normal human body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius and if it falls below 20 degrees Celsius, the body will fall into a coma and the heart stops beating. People will not be able to live in low temperature conditions without support tools. But bacteria are different. There is a strain of bacteria that likes to live in the cold ice at the pole of the earth, where the temperature drops to minus 40 degrees C . That's the cold-resistant strain.

Especially, in harsh acidic environments, bacteria still live. In addition, there are bacteria that like saltwater, prefer alkaline environments and do not even need air to survive.

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Strange uses

In addition to his 'everyday' jobs such as making bread, cheese, beer and wine; or create a lot of chemicals like antibiotics, nylon and insulin derivatives ., bacteria can do a lot of weird things.

People have been able to use a light-producing strain of bacteria to produce indoor glowing items such as chairs, tables, and lamps. There was a project about glowing bacteria . More surprisingly, bacteria also have the ability to 'take pictures '. These ' live cameras ' are used by scientists to study gene technology.

For these types of bacteria that like to 'cup ' radioactive waste , there is nothing better. While the problem of radioactive waste is hurting the scientific world and the plague of many rich countries, US scientists have discovered hundreds of bacteria living in radioactive landfills and eating gradually waste it.

Genetically modified bacteria are used as synthetic explosives to make rockets, glue (considered the world's most durable adhesive), battery powered by microbial energy .

Many famous people thanks to . bacteria

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1843-1910) is a German doctor and biologist. He found the bacilli bacilli, tubercle bacilli and cholera bacteria, and gave the famous Koch rule. In order to confirm whether certain bacteria are the cause of a certain disease, all the standards of the Koch principle must be satisfied .

Koch invented a new method of staining bacteria that makes them easier to see and verify. The results of these works are the prelude to the method of studying pathogenic bacteria.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for tuberculosis works in 1905 and is considered one of the founders of bacteriology.

German biologist - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1843-1910) - (Photo: answers.com)

The 1945 Nobel Prize was awarded to Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) with Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey due to the discovery and separation of penicillin - the first antibiotic to treat infections. Dr. Fleming was famous for accidentally sneezing into a bacterial culture plate and thus found lysozyme, a mild antibacterial form. And for the second time, because he forgot the bacterial culture plate, he discovered a green mold that is antibacterial. That was the basis for inventing his future penicillin antibiotic.

The 2005 Nobel Prize for two Australian scientists J.Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall for discovering the cause of stomach ulcers is Helicobacter Pylori , opening new and effective treatments for the root. disease that has half of the world's population. This is considered a work that completely overturned the notion of previous medicine about stomach disease.