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Microorganisms Good Or Bad Essay

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Microorganisms
Good, Bad or Both
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was one of the first people who observe microorganisms; using microscopes of his own design. Microorganisms are both good and bad to humans. They cannot be seen by the naked eye. Some microorganisms break down dead plants to give off important materials (Decomposers); some are made as medicine to cure. In this article, it will be written about how diseases spread, how we make them as medicine, types of them and how some help us.

Diseases
Infectious disease Microorganism that causes the disease Type of Microorganism
Cold Rhinovirus Virus
Chickenpox Varicella zoster Virus
Malaria Plasmodium falciparum Protozoan
German measles Rubella Virus
Whooping cough Bordatella pertussis Bacteria
Ring worm Trichophyton rubrum Fungi
Bubonic plaque Yersinia pestis Bacteria …show more content…

When a plant or animal dies, its body begins to break down onto small pieces. A decomposer makes dead things into chemicals and then the chemicals go in the air, ground or water and is used again and again.
Examples of decomposers
Some types of decomposers are Bacteria and Fungi (microorganisms). Others are worms and mushrooms. Some mushrooms grow out of dead plants and animals to help decompose them down. The worms live underground; they eat their way through dead plants and animals. Microorganism decomposers are all around us, in the air and in the ground.
In this section, Microorganisms have been helping to rot dead plants and animals down and releases minerals from the body tissues.
Monera group
The Monera kingdom consists of unicellular life forms. Unicellular means that they only have one cell. The Moneran group cells are way simpler than other living thing’s cell. The Monera group cells doesn’t have nucleus, just like the red blood cell and also other parts.

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