Microbes: Amazing, Fascinating, Influential, and Vital Lifeforms

By Sushil Momaya

Welcome to the world of Microbes - amazing, fascinating, influential, and vital lifeforms. Ria, the Bacteria, will take us through 30 chapters and 185+ colorful illustrations on microbes and their importance to all other lives on this planet. Believe it or not but we owe a lot, including our lives, to the invisible microbes.

We know so less about microbes and the more we learn about them the more amazing we find them. Microbes are ubiquitous - they are found almost everywhere on the land, water, and air. They live in deepest ocean trenches, clouds, hydrothermal vents, boiling springs, Antarctic ice, hot desserts, tops of mountains, inside our bodies, and even on our bodies. We now know that the microbes inside us probably exceed the number of cells in our bodies. Isn't this amazing?

Ria introduces us to the concept of biotechnology, which is primarily concerned with application of microbes for making our lives better. We use microbes as factories to produce desired products (cheese, medicines, antibiotics, enzymes, hormones, proteins, antibodies, pigments, compounds, metabolites, and others). Additionally, we have been turning microbes into powerful tools for use in different applications such as wastewater treatment, oil spill removals, plastic degradation, and nuclear waste clean-up. Being so tiny and invisible doesn't make them insignificant and dull, but fascinating.

Ria then traces the origin of life to microbes. Microbes were the first organisms on the planet and will be the last surviving ones too. Just imagine their power and adaptability.
Microbes living inside us are believed to exert a high level of control on our physical and mental state of health. So, in a way they have a high degree of influence on our lives.

There are more microbes in just one gram of soil than the complete human population on earth. Our bodies are brimming with microbes. Our mouths, guts, and skins are full of microbial establishments and colonies. Microbes help you digest your food, convert inaccessible nutrients, provide vitamins and minerals (Vitamin B12 is produced only by bacteria; animals only accumulate the bacterial-produced VitB12), breakdown toxins and chemicals, and several such other body functions. So, microbes are indeed vital for our survival.

Each chapter has on an average 6 illustrations making the book highly interesting and enjoyable to kids and adults alike. By the end of the book, we will be able to appreciate and be thankful to our tiny and invisible friends.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09TPT5F56
• ISBN13: 9798789775424
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"