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    Bacteria are single-celled organisms that are ubiquitous on Earth and play vital roles in nutrient cycles and ecosystems. Bacteria can be beneficial, pathogenic, or neutral to humans and animals. They are classified as prokaryotes and have no nucleus or membrane-bound organelles unlike eukaryotic cells.

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    Bacteria (/bækˈtɪəriə/ ⓘ; sg.

    : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living


    organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain
    of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were
    among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its
    habitats. Bacteria inhabit soil, water, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste, and
    the deep biosphere of Earth's crust. Bacteria play a vital role in many stages of
    the nutrient cycle by recycling nutrients and the fixation of nitrogen from the
    atmosphere. The nutrient cycle includes the decomposition of dead bodies; bacteria
    are responsible for the putrefaction stage in this process. In the biological
    communities surrounding hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, extremophile bacteria
    provide the nutrients needed to sustain life by converting dissolved compounds,
    such as hydrogen sulphide and methane, to energy. Bacteria also live in
    mutualistic, commensal and parasitic relationships with plants and animals. Most
    bacteria have not been characterised and there are many species that cannot be
    grown in the laboratory. The study of bacteria is known as bacteriology, a branch
    of microbiology.

    Like all animals, humans carry vast numbers (approximately 1013 to 1014) of
    bacteria.[2] Most are in the gut, though there are many on the skin. Most of the
    bacteria in and on the body are harmless or rendered so by the protective effects
    of the immune system, and many are beneficial,[3] particularly the ones in the gut.
    However, several species of bacteria are pathogenic and cause infectious diseases,
    including cholera, syphilis, anthrax, leprosy, tuberculosis, tetanus and bubonic
    plague. The most common fatal bacterial diseases are respiratory infections.
    Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and are also used in farming,
    making antibiotic resistance a growing problem. Bacteria are important in sewage
    treatment and the breakdown of oil spills, the production of cheese and yogurt
    through fermentation, the recovery of gold, palladium, copper and other metals in
    the mining sector, as well as in biotechnology, and the manufacture of antibiotics
    and other chemicals.

    Once regarded as plants constituting the class Schizomycetes ("fission fungi"),


    bacteria are now classified as prokaryotes. Unlike cells of animals and other
    eukaryotes, bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-
    bound organelles. Although the term bacteria traditionally included all
    prokaryotes, the scientific classification changed after the discovery in the 1990s
    that prokaryotes consist of two very different groups of organisms that evolved
    from an ancient common ancestor. These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and
    Archaea.[4]

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