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=INTRODUCTION TO BACTERIA=

Imagine an army of about 5 nonillion (30 zeros) bigger than all the people in the world. Imagine that parts of that army were in your body, in the air you breath and around before the dinosaurs were. They’re all around us, but here’s the catch, you can’t see any of them. That army is called bacterial cells. They are what help break down food, bring diseases and they look pretty crazy.

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The Boston Red Sox and bacteria are alike in several ways. According to [|__BrainPOP__], bacteria cells are known for helping out our body in the digestive system with breaking down food. In order to understand how this works imagine the Red Sox vs Yankees 2004 playoffs. In the first 3 games the Yankees rolled over the Red Sox as food would role through the __ [|digestive system] __ barely touched. But out of nowhere the Red Sox (the bacteria) come together as a team surrounding and using __ [|carbohydrates] __ and pili to break down the food into energy. They also provide vitamins that your body needs to fight off diseases. Although this might seem like an easy task, the bacteria have to find the food to produce energy and sometimes there's not much of it which can lead to fighting. The Sox and Bacteria are also different in ways such as every player has a certain position with different jobs while bacteria pretty much all have the same job. Also, in baseball some parts are more about one person while one bacteria cell can’t do do anything on it’s own, it needs a team to complete it’s adjective.

=HELP OR HARM=



A bacteria is a type of single celled organism with many structures and many shapes. Bacteria cells can come in all shapes depending on what thing they’re in. The important parts of the bacterial cell are the cell wall, flagella, nucleoid and the cytoplasm. The first structure is the cell wall. The cell wall protects the cell from any harmful waste.



The next characteristic is the flagella. The flagella is the thread like structure that allows the cell to move throughout the environment it's in. Another characteristic is the nucleoid. This is important because it fills in the role of the nucleus which is lacked in this cell. It's job is to control the cell and make proteins. Finally, the last characteristic is the cytoplasm. This part breaks down waste inside the cell and move organelles to their destination. In the long run, bacteria does a lot more good than bad which is what we’re gonna focus on right now.

=BACTERIAL NINJAS=

Bacteria is known for its diseases that it carries. Everyday when someone coughs, sneezes etc, it carries some sort of disease. In 2012-13 a study found that on average 56,000 people die from a virus from bacteria. Bacteria are so small that they can sneak into you from cuts in your skin, your mouth, eyes and many other ways. Some diseases they can bring include: tuberculosis, the flu, bubonic plague and some skin infections and possible death. [|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yToii3-p-NI__]

Ways to prevent bacterial diseases are to keep up good hygiene like washing your hands. Also by protecting your immune system with healthy fruits and vegetables. Adding on, you should not come in contact with any sick people. Finally, antibiotics work very well for many reasons, one being that they attack organelles in the bacteria that humans don't have including a cell wall.

=THANK YOU=

In conclusion, bacteria may seem like tiny living creatures that can do nothing but float around, however they're a lot more dangerous than we think. They also get overlooked all the time by us because we don't realize how many times they have come in clutch and saved us from a long trip on the throne. = =

=REFERENCES=

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