17 Facts About Microorganisms

Microorganisms include most unicellular organisms from all three domains of life they can be extremely diverse.

Microorganisms can have very different habitats, and live everywhere from the poles to the equator, deserts, geysers, rocks, and the deep sea.

Microorganisms make up the microbiota found in and on all multicellular organisms.

Microorganisms was the first in 1673 to discover and conduct scientific experiments with microorganisms, using simple single-lensed microscopes of his own design.

Microorganisms found that the blood of cattle that were infected with anthrax always had large numbers of Bacillus anthracis.

Microorganisms found that he could grow the bacteria in a nutrient broth, then inject it into a healthy animal, and cause illness.

Microorganisms was responsible for the first isolation and description of both nitrifying and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Microorganisms are found in almost every habitat present in nature, including hostile environments such as the North and South poles, deserts, geysers, and rocks.

Microorganisms are useful in producing foods, treating waste water, creating biofuels and a wide range of chemicals and enzymes.

Microorganisms are used in a fermentation process to make yoghurt, cheese, curd, kefir, ayran, xynogala, and other types of food.

Microorganisms are used in brewing, wine making, baking, pickling and other food-making processes.

Microorganisms are used in fermentation to produce ethanol, and in biogas reactors to produce methane.

Microorganisms are used to produce many commercial and industrial chemicals, enzymes and other bioactive molecules.

Microorganisms are used to prepare bioactive molecules such as Streptokinase from the bacterium Streptococcus, Cyclosporin A from the ascomycete fungus Tolypocladium inflatum, and statins produced by the yeast Monascus purpureus.

Microorganisms are essential tools in biotechnology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Microorganisms can be harnessed for uses such as creating steroids and treating skin diseases.

Microorganisms are the causative agents in many infectious diseases.