MICROORGANISM

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 WHAT ARE MICROORGANISM

• Organism that have a body made from

only one cell
• There are 4 types of microorganisms:
fungi, protozoa, algae and bacteria
 THE FUNGI KINGDOM
• Can be seen easily without microscope
• A few fungi are parasites. Athlete’s foot is caused by
a fungus that feed on damp skin between the toes.
• Example of organism under the fungi kingdom are
yeast & mushroom
MUSHROOM RING
ATHLETE’S FOOT
 THE MONERA KINGDOM
• Monera does not have a nucleus
• There are 2 groups in this kingdom. They are the bacteria and blue-
green algae
• Some bacteria feed on the inside of living bodies, where they cause
disease.
• Diphteria, whooping cough, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, toxocara and
food poisoning are all caused by bacteria
 BACTERIA
• Found in water, air, on the surfaces of plant, animal, rock and
inside living things too.
• Reproduce by binary fission, where each bacteria divide into
two
• If condition dry and hot, some bacteria form spore
• They can survive inside spore for a long time
• They break out of the spore when favourable condition return
Binary fission
Bacterial spore
 BLUE-GREEN ALGAE
• Lives in seas, ocean and lakes
• Grow on wet rocks at the sides of stream and river.
 THE PROTOzoa
• made from just one cell (unicellular)
• Contain nucleus
• Some make their food through photosynthesis like plants
• Some feed as animal do
• Outside body may have flagellum, or cilia (tiny hair) to help move in
water
• One kind of protozoan known as amoeba make projection from its
body called pseudopodia
• Pseudopodia help amoeba to move and find food
• Some members of protoctista live in human and cause disease such as
malaria, sleeping sickness and amoebic dysentry
 VIRUS
• Virus do not have cell structure
• They do not feed, respire or excrete
• When they are placed on living tissue, they enter the
living cell and reproduce
• They destroy the cell and cause disease
• Virus may cause influenza, chicken pox, measles,
rabies, aids
• Some microorganism give
benefit to the environment
such as decomposer
• The decomposer will feed on
the dead plant and animal,
and thus break them down
• The mineral from the body
tissues are released into the
soil and available for
plants to take them up in
their root
• Decomposer ensure that
mineral that living
organism need are recycled
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