FACSINATING FACTS ABOUT BACTERIAS!
FACTS ABOUT BACTERIA 1. Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery in 1674 affects us all today! By discovering the existence of bacteria by using an early microscope, mankind today is both safer and more dangerous! Leeuwenhoek was studying scraped cells from a human mouth. 2. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Life-changing antibiotics have been developed to prevent and treat bad bacterial infections! However, it’s thought that antibiotics will only last for so long, as bacteria can evolve and adapt to treatments. 3. Bacterial illness is actually pretty rare. Scientists have calculated that globally, only 1% of known bacteria make people ill. 4. Bacteria have been with us for a very long time. Studies have proved that bacteria have existed on earth for approximately 3.5 billion years! 5. We actually rely on bacteria for a lot of good. Human bodies use the services of good bacteria every day in digestive processing. Also, when bad bacteria invade o...