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=Introduction= toc A lot of people are afraid of bacteria but bacteria could be helpful in many ways. There's many ways that bacteria could affect you in positive and negative ways like in a positive way it helps you digest your food and negative ways it could give you diseases like Lyme disease and strep throat. = = = **Bacteria Get Their Nutrients By Different Methods** = A bacteria can get nutrients from energy in different ways. There's two ways that bacteria could get its food they could make there own food or they eat other organisms. For example the bacteria uses photosynthesis to make there own food from the sunlight and absorb the energy from the sun. Another example is that bacteria eats other organisms by eating the waste that we eat and then they get their energy. Bacteria in the large intestine bacteria feed this material and this does not cause disease it actually helps to get more vitamin like vitamin K.

=Structures of a Bacteria Cell= A bacteria can get nutrients from energy in different ways. There's two ways that bacteria could get its food they could make there own food or they eat other organisms. For example the bacteria uses photosynthesis to make there own food from the sunlight and absorb the energy from the sun. Another example is that bacteria eats other organisms by eating the waste that we eat and then they get their energy. Bacteria in the large intestine bacteria feed this material and this does not cause disease it actually helps to get more vitamin like vitamin K.



=Illnesses Caused By Bacteria= There's lots of diseases that are caused by bacteria this bacteria diseases could affect you in really bad ways. For example Lyme disease it's a disease that is a rash that it caused by getting bitten by an infected deer tick, this bite could cause you to get a fever, body aches and joint swelling. Another bacterial disease is strep throat, this could happen when you inhale droplets or getting in contact with an object with the bacteria. The last example is food poisoning,this could happen if you eat a food containing the bacteria the symptoms are vomiting, cramps,diarrhea and fever all these diseases are caused by bacteria.



That picture shows a bite from the infected deer tick



This picture shows a regular throat and an infected throat

=Conclusion= A Bacteria cell could be small but very mighty. Bacteria is a very dangerous and destructive to your body. Bacteria can cause diseases that can be deadly like lyme disease, strep throat and food poisoning. People think bacter ia is only bad but we know that's incorrect. Without bacteria you wouldn't get to digest your food. After all bacteria is not just bad for your body in many different ways but also good.

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