Fact : #5

                             
                                                               Bacteria 

• Bacteria are single-celled microscopic organisms.

• There is about 5 nonillion of them right now.

• Bacteria live in our food, our water, our air and even inside our bodies.

• Without bacteria, cows wouldn't even be able to eat grass!

• Plants need bacteria too, they convert nitrogen in the soil into simpler structures that plants can absorb more easily.

• Bacteria come in lots of different shapes and sizes.

• Some can't move, but others move using whip-like strands called flagella.

• Bacteria are prokaryotic cells, unlike animal's and plant's cells most bacterial cells don't contain many complex organelles.

• Some bacteria are able to generate their own energy through photosynthesis.

• Some survive by digesting chemicals in their environments.

• Most bacteria reproduce asexually in a process called fission.

• Fission produces two cells with the same genetic material as the parent cell.

• Some bacteria exchange genetic material in a process that's closer to sexual reproduction.

• Bacteria can reproduce very quickly, sometimes as fast as once every 20 minutes.

• Bacteria are among the oldest forms of life on the planet Earth.

     Notes taken from :  BrainPOP.com