Useful bacteria What association usually comes to mind when we think about bacteria?? Most likely at the mention of bacteria, we think of germs and of disease and of how we need to sterilize to keep them from harming us. Most of us, however, tend to ignore the fact that although humans do their best each day to cook and sterilize away the tiny micro-organisms known as bacteria, there are literally thousands and thousands that …showed first 75 words of 771 total…

…showed last 75 words of 771 total…guessed that such a huge job in the maintaining of the world would rest on the shoulders of an organism measuring as little as 1 micron long? Perhaps, because of their size and our attempts to destroy them, we do not notice these tiny little creatures on a day to day basis. However, we just have to look around us to understand the important role they play and appreciate the positive purposes they have on earth.