interesting facts about microbiology and microbiology?

Question

What are interesting facts about it i have a project due tomorrow (10/31/06) and i need HELP!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

There is a such thing as a good bacteria...and bacterias that we need to survive.

Answer 2

Here you are with my try:

1) The fact that microbes were discovered as the last major group of living things by science, until recent times (three and a half centuries ago at most by Anton van Leeuwenhoek).

2) Microbiology is a science with many applications in varied aspects of modern life:

- Discovery of better medical treatments for diseases caused by microbes.
- Uses in food industry for production of fermented foods and beverages (cheese, sausages, beer, yogurth, etc.)
- Uses in sewage water treatment.
- Uses in Chemical industries as ore extraction and oil production.
- Use of microbes for production of a lot of helpful substances in pharmaceutical (insuline, antibiotics, interferon, etc.)
- Use of microbes to produce enzymes that are useful both in food industry (proteases for example, biomass production using yeasts) and chemical industries (lipases for example).

3) The fact that a lot of microbiological species are living things that are on Earth thousands of years before any other creature in the world (example archaebacteria).

4) The fact that a large group of bacteria are one of the most resistant living things in the whole biosphere: Extremophiles are organisms that can survive a nuclear explosion (for example Deinococcus radiodurans), temperatures below 0°C, temperature above 100°C with pressures of hundreds of atmospheres (near submarine volcanos in the deep sea, for example: Pyrococcus furiosus) or superlative concentrations of salt (halophile bacterias).


Hope it helps!

Answer 3

Oh, good planning.

I, at this pathetically late stage, would go for the development of the microscope, and how they get distortion out of the lenses.