What-It-All-Means.com
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What It All Means: A Science of Consciousness, Semeiotics, the Elements of Personal Philosophy
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Microbes can be divided into six main types: Archaea, Bacteria, Fungi, Protista, Viruses, and Microbial Mergers. Clockwise from upper left: Amoeba proteus, a member of the protistas; a close-up view of a fog-desert Niebla lichen [mergers]; basidiospores of the shiitake mushroom, Lentinula edodes [fungi]; Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense [bacteria]; and rotavirus [viruses]. Lichen image courtesy of Sylvia and Stephen Sharnoff, the Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Others, courtesy of MicrobeLibrary.org.
They are the oldest form of life on earth. Microbe fossils date back more than 3.5 billion years to a time when the Earth was covered with oceans that regularly reached the boiling point, hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Often dismissed as “germs” that cause illness, bacteria help us do an amazing array of useful things, like make vitamins, break down some types of garbage, and maintain our atmosphere.
