Microbes in Human Welfare Mind map Class 12 NEET CBSE
We have seen a lot of bad micro-organisms in previous chapters. However other than plants and animals, a lot of microbes form a major component of biological system on earth. Micro-organisms like bacteria fungi and virus are present everywhere from soil to water and even inside our bodies. These can be found in ice cold environment as well as hot environments were temperature maybe as high as 100 degree Celsius. Microbes in household products - We use microbes in lot of daily to daily processes. For example milk is converted into curd by a bacteria called lactobacillus or lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Also bakers use fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae to get soft bread. Hence this yeast is also called as bakers yeast. Swiss cheese has large holes due to Carbon dioxide production by a bacteria known as Propionibacterium sharmanii. A very famous cheese called Roquefort cheese is right and by growing fungus Penicilliam roqueforti on it. Microbes in industries - Saccharomyces cerevisiae is also...