Facts about Bacteria

An introduction to Facts about Bacteria

The term bacteria represent single and a very small organism. It is the plural form of word bacterium. Usually bacteria consist of one cell and are considered as the smallest living thing after a virus. Either soil, water, air or even in our body or skin bacteria is found everywhere.

Bacteria in a favorable condition can multiply in billions. Even if it is a small space same as of a drop of water it growth continues in billions.

Generally bacteria are classified in three groups. These bacterial groups are based on their shape. Some of the bacteria have shape similar to a comma; this kind of bacteria is known as vibrio. A single bacterium is not a longer one in size, bacteria grows in group rather than a single cell.

Good and Bad Bacteria

There are two kind of bacteria good one and the bad one. The good one co-exists with our body and help to fight off bad one. Another kind of good bacteria helps our body to function. On the other hand the bad bacteria though not harmful in its characteristic yet it is very annoying like making the bad breath or causing pimples. Another bad one which is really called bad bacteria is the one which causes fatal infections. Good thing is this that there are less than 1% bacteria that are real harmful and makes us sick.

Drying hands with Paper Towel

Drying hand with paper towel is most hygienic, it reduces nearly 60% bacteria from our hands while if we uses a hand dryer it increase the bacteria in our hands up to 255% because dryer blows out bacteria which already living in it.

Oldest known form of life

Bacteria are the oldest known form of live on planet earth even before the dinosaur exists. They exists on planet earth almost from last 3.5 billion years or more. If we lined up bacteria from end to end they will stretch up to 10 billion light years. In every five hours a single cell produces nearly one billion offspring.

Bacteria in our body and food

Surprisingly our body is full of bacteria. There are 10 cells of bacteria living in each cell of our body. Only in our intestine, quantity of bacteria is more than the total population of human on planet earth. Many of the foods we eat contain bacteria. Even some of the foods we create such as yoghurt, pickles, cheese and sourdough, bacteria are purposely added in it.

Wearing Jeans

In a study it is reported that wearing a pair of jeans continuously for a period of 15 months didn’t develop any harmful and unhealthy amount of bacteria.

Antibiotics

Sore throat and common colds are caused because of virus and bacteria play no role in these diseases. These sorts of diseases could not be treated by taking antibiotics because antibiotics are not beneficial in such conditions. Scientist has discovered a bacteria-based antibiotic which helps to kill and fight infections and save the life of hundreds of thousands of people every year. There are more reasons to love bacteria instead of fearing of them.

Human bites

Because of bacteria in our teeth and mouth, human bite is considered as one of the most dangerous bite in the world.

Bacteria help to cure Illnesses

There are illnesses which could be cured because of bacteria. Illnesses such as upset stomachs, different type of diabetes, allergies, asthma and many more auto-immune diseases are all linked to a lack of bacterial biodiversity.

Stomach ulcers

It is proved that stomach ulcers are caused due to bacteria and not because of stress. To prove this theory a scientist drank a beaker of bacterium and because of that stomach ulcer was developed in him and he won the Nobel Prize because of his research.