Question

2. Microbes are both bane and boon. Justify
the statement with examples.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Microbes are beneficial to mankind in many ways and it also affects it in many ways .It is both boon and a bane .

Explanation:

Microbes are a boon :

• Vaccines are produced using microbes. 'Prevention is better than cure ' , vaccines are a part of preventive methods . It induces the production of antibodies and develops immunity .
• Antibiotics are another benefit we get using microbes . Antibiotics are chemical substances derived from microbes like fungi , bacteria etc . employed to kill infectious germs ( pathogens) and cure a disease .
• Biotechnologically synthesized vitamin B 12 is used to cure megabolastic anaemia. Microbes are used for its synthesis .
• Biochemically significant enzymes are derived from microbes . The enzyme Amylase is derived from amyloproteins of bacteria .
• Diabetes is treated by biotechnologically produced insulin which is synthesized with the help of microbes.

Microbes are bane :

• Microbes like viruses cause dreadful diseases like polio , rabies , hepatitis , meningitis , encephalitis ,etc .
• Some bacterias are parasitic and cause diseases. The diseases caused by bacteria in man are tuberculosis, cholera , typhoid , diptheria , leprosy, pertusis , tetanus , plague , pneumonia , syphilis , gonorrhoea, etc .
• Certain species of fungi are parasitic , ring worm attack the keratinized layer of skin , destroying it in circular patches . Dandruff and Atheletes' foot are other fungal diseases that attack man.
• Some parasitic protozoans cause malaria , amoebic dysentry , sleeping sickness , etc.

Thus , with all the above mentioned points we can say that microbes are both boon and bane to the human society.

Answer 2

Answer:

Microbes are beneficial to mankind in many ways and it also affects it in many ways .It is both boon and a bane .

Explanation:

Microbes are a boon :

   Vaccines are produced using microbes. 'Prevention is better than cure ' , vaccines are a part of preventive methods . It induces the production of antibodies and develops immunity .

   Antibiotics are another benefit we get using microbes . Antibiotics are chemical substances derived from microbes like fungi , bacteria etc . employed to kill infectious germs ( pathogens) and cure a disease .

   Biotechnologically synthesized vitamin B 12 is used to cure scholasticism anaemia. Microbes are used for its synthesis .

   Biochemically significant enzymes are derived from microbes . The enzyme Amylase is derived from protestations of bacteria .

   Diabetes is treated by bio technologically produced insulin which is synthesized with the help of microbes.

Microbes are bane :

  Microbes like viruses cause dreadful diseases like polio , rabies , hepatitis , meningitis , encephalitis ,etc .

   Some parasitic protozoans cause malaria , amoebic dysentery , sleeping sickness , etc.

Thus , with all the above mentioned points we can say that microbes are both boon and bane to the human society.