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=__ What is Bacteria? __= = = = Introduction = toc It's thanksgiving dinner, involving the most wonderful foods that fill your stomach, almost too much by topping it off with a pie. This food is so good that not all of it could end up fully digested. If only you had something in your body can take that undigested food for you. Oh wait you do. Its called Bacteria. Bacteria helps the body by taking the undigested food as their own. They are also able to do this very fast by reproducing as soon as one every twenty minutes. As much as that seems like a lot there can also be a bad side to bacteria, that can mutate or become pathogens and cause diseases in your body. As bacteria sounds good to help you during those stuffed moments just make sure you watch out and probably lay off that last slice of pie before you get ill.

= Help or Harm =

Bacteria react to the environment in multiple ways. Bacteria is the cell when they can help and harm your body. Bacteria reacts or helps the body by eating undigested food that your body doesn't fully digest. For instance, if there was a homeless person finding food in the garbage as their own food that would be an example of bacteria finding it’s food that was not digested. Anyways, these cells also have to reproduce very quickly but they can also become a pathogen and cause diseases from “being greedy” and taking the wrong food that could affect the body ( “Bacteria.”) They can also act as a stop sign to the flow of food, which can clog up a throat and cause a sore throat on the outside of the body.(Padilla et al.) In conclusion, bacteria tries to help as much as it can even if it does it the wrong way.

Regular Bacteria Cell

= Binary Fission =

Bacteria can reproduce with fission. Binary FIssion is when the cell reproduces asexually, which means the cell can reproduce with the same genetic material. ( “Bacteria.”) Bacteria can reproduce in a matter of twenty minutes. As much as this seems how fast that seems, there is a bad side. Bacteria also becomes a pathogen. Pathogens are mutated bacteria cells. They act as a criminal to bacteria. They take too much from the bacteria cells while they are trying to help the body. Pathogens are the ones behind most diseases or common illnesses. (Padilla et al.) As a conclusion, make sure you keep yourself healthy and make the right decisions.

this process shows how binary fission is being developed by using only singled celled organisms by themselves to reproduce

= Is Bacteria bad? =

Bacteria can harm their environment by causing diseases. These diseases can include Food poisoning, Strep throat, Tetanus, Tuberculosis and Lyme disease. Most of these diseases are formed when new bacteria enters the body and reacts by causing illness. Food poisoning is spreaded when eating food that contains new bacteria, that can cause bacteria to react with other bacteria and make you get sick. (Padilla et al 63). Strep Throat occurs when you are in contact with a contaminated object. (Bacteria).For example, a contaminated item can be a sickness of another person or thing that spreads from their body to yours causing unhealthy bacteria to react with bacteria in your body. Tetanus is when you have a deep open wound that can cause infections.(Padilla et al 63). Infections are caused from dirt and rust that can get in underneath your skin, that's why you get tetanus shots to prevent further illness. Tuberculosis is when you inhale droplets. This means, when another person is sick and sneezes while you are nearby and you inhale it, bacteria from that sneeze enters your body. That's why you need to make sure you cover your sneezes! Finally, there is lyme disease. Lyme disease is a disease you get from a bite of an infected deer tick (Padilla et al 63). This bite bubbles your skin because the bacteria from the deer tick goes underneath the skin as those cells react, the skin bubbles up showing a deer tick bite (Padilla et al.). As these diseases can make you sick bacteria battles with these pathogens to make these diseases more uncommon.

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= Conclusion = You now know why this is important. Bacteria can help and harm.If you follow these rules and dont decide to eat that last piece of pie. You will return the favor for bacteria because soon enough mutated bacteria will take it all. So make sure you keep your food in check or else those mutated bacteria cells will win the battle to make you live a shorter life so keep it strong and help the bacteria win.

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