Amazing facts about microbes

Amazing facts about microbes

  • Viruses are said to be so small that 500 million of them could fit on the head of a pin.

  • Regions of the Indian Ocean that glow at night are due to tiny sea algae called dinoflagellata.

  • There are about 27,000 different species of algae.

  • Human bites are one of the most dangerous animal bites in the world due to the presence of bacteria in our mouths.

  • Microbes generate at least 50 percent of the oxygen that we breathe.

  • Microorganisms recycle the huge masses of organic matter synthesized by plants as life evolved on Earth.


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