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How Microbes Affect Our World

Area Microbe Type Positive Effects Negative Effects

Health & Medicine Bacteria, Fungi, Viruses - Production of antibiotics (e.g., - Cause diseases (e.g., TB,

Agriculture Bacteria, Fungi -Penicillin)


Nitrogen fixation (e.g., -COVID-19,
Plant diseases
cholera)
(e.g., rust, smut,

Industry Yeast, Bacteria -Rhizobium)


Vaccines development
Fermentation (e.g., alcohol, -wilt)
Spoilage of industrial products

Environment Bacteria, Algae -cheese,


Decomposers
Bioremediation
curd) improve
(cleaning
soiloil - Algal blooms cause oxygen

Food Bacteria, Fungi, Yeast fertility


-spills,
Enzyme
Curd waste
formation,
production
treatment)
bread rising, -depletion
Food spoilage and

Biotechnology Genetically modified -pickles


Oxygenproduction
Insulin production -contamination
Ethical concerns and possible

microbes - Gene therapy and research misuse

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