beneficial bacteria

What is true about bacteria?

• Bacteria use photosynthesis to make their own food
• Bacteria can only be found in dirt
• Bacteria is always beneficial
• Bacteria can be used to make certain foods

Most bacteria are

• Harmful

• Helpful

• Begnin

• Cancer

Are bacteria are good or bad?

• Good
• Bad
• Both

What type of bacteria is pictured?

• coccus

• spirilium

• bacillus

One way in which bacteria are beneficial:

• they make food
• they cause disease
• they cause food poisoning
• they create sugar

Another way in which bacteria are beneficial:

• they are decomposers
• they are the powerhouse of cells
• they contain special DNA
• they are used to make Diet Coke

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Are all bacteria bad?

• Yes, they all cause disease
• No, some of them can be beneficial

How can you avoid microorganisms?

• You can't

• Wash your hands

• Use hand-sanitizer

• cook chicken completely

Beneficial or Harmful?

fungus & bacteria decomposes dead tree limbs in forest

• beneficial

• harmful

Food goes down to the esophagus

• Then to the stomach

• Then to reticulum

• Then to the rumen