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In terms of evolution, bacteria are thought to be very old organisms, appearing about 3.7 billion years ago.
Two organelles, mitochondria and chloroplasts, are generally believed to have been derived from endosymbiotic bacteria.
Microorganisms are widely distributed and are most abundant where they have food, moisture, and the right temperature for their multiplication and growth. Bacteria can be carried by air currents from one place to another. The human body is home to billions of microorganisms; they can be found on skin surfaces, in the intestinal tract, in the mouth, nose, and other body openings. They are in the air one breathes, the water one drinks, and the food one eats.
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- Some text in this entry was merged with the Nupedia article entitled Bacteria, written by Nagina Parmar; reviewed and approved by the Biology group (editor: Gaytha Langlois, lead reviewer: Gaytha Langlois, lead copyeditors: Ruth Ifcher and Jan Hogle)
- This article or image contains material from the Science Primer published by the NCBI, which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain [1].
10 Further reading
- Alcamo, I. Edward. Fundamentals of Microbiology. 5th ed. Menlo Park, California: Benjamin Cumming, 1997.
- Atlas, Ronald M. Principles of Microbiology. St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby, 1995.
- Holt, John.G. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. 9th ed. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins, 1994.
- Stanier, R.Y., J. L. Ingraham, M. L. Wheelis, and P. R. Painter. General Microbiology. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1986.
- Hugenholtz P, Goebel BM, Pace NR. Impact of Culture-Independent Studies on the Emerging Phylogenetic View of Bacterial Diversity. J Bacteriol 1998;180:4765-4774. Fulltext / [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids= } Medline abstract] (PMID }).
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"Bacteria" is also the fictional name of a warring nation under Benzino Napaloni as dictator, in the 1940 film The Great Dictator.
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