Microbes are both bane and boon justify the statement with examples
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Answer:
Microbes are a boon as well as bane because
Explanation:
BOON
1 they fix nitrogen for us
2 they are the decomposers which clean our environment
BANE
1 they cause infections
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.