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MICROORGANISM IN HUMAN LIFE

 General
 microorganism (from the Greek: μικρός, mikrós,
"small" and ὀργανισμός, organismós, "organism"; also
spelt micro-organism, micro organism or
microörganism) or microbe is an organism that is
unicellular or lives in a colony of cellular organisms.
 . The study of microorganisms is called
microbiology, a subject that began with
Anton van Leeuwenhoek's discovery of
microorganisms in 1675, using a
microscope of his own design.
Microorganisms are very diverse
they include: bacteria, fungi, archaea, and protists;
microscopic plants (green algae); and animals such as
plankton and the planarian. Some microbiologists also
include viruses, but others consider these as non-living

Red bacteria Rinodina archaea from


China, Yunnan
protists

Virus HIV Some fungi


Microorganisms live in all parts of
the biosphere where there is liquid
water, including soil, hot springs, on
the ocean floor, high in the
atmosphere and deep inside rocks
within the Earth's crust.

Tetrahymena thermophila

Pyrodictium abyssi microorganisms under the sea Salmonella

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