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Hello MS Carrie.
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I'm going to talk about my microbiology final And
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the questions asked about the big picture of microbiology.
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So starting with my favorite topic is definitely about antigens and antibodies.
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I definitely um love um
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my job enrolling Air Force as immunization technician.
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However my base does not have a um immunotherapy section in the clinic.
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And so there are other bases as well with the same thing but
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I have to go every two years to a base that has one
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and be able to learn about um the roles that once when we inject certain microbes of a
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particular item of plants animals or food source that
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um learning how the body reacts to it.
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I didn't get a whole lot of scope of
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that and hunkering down and thankfully the semester has taught
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me a lot about um focusing on the lymphocytes of
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the B cells and T cells learning about receptors.
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Learning about the binding sites. Learning about um
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how um antibodies just work as a whole the light rods the heavy rods of the Y. Shape.
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And I also um can help others understand and
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explain to the patient why we are doing immunotherapy.
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So
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there's a prevalence to my job with understanding this topic.
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And in the future of me becoming a nurse I want to also demonstrate um how to ask
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um patients if they have certain allergies how
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they react to some things because all it
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takes is a little bit of microbes to cause an exacerbation of asthma or anaphylaxis.
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These are definitely unfavorable unfavorable
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characteristics that microbes have an
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impact of um fighting us or us fighting it.
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So
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and talk about how if I had an unknown microbe what
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steps would I take to determine if it's a virus?
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If it's a fungi bacteria. What particular characteristics I would search for?
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So starting out the study in microscopic morphology can help us determine in
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a closer look at the characteristics physical
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characteristics such as uh the shape.
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The immediate thing you see is shapes if it's a spear if it's a spiral if it's a rod
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you have how it moves. So if it moves is it moving back Coachella? Is it moving by Celia
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um
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size uh Different sizes of different precarious and eukaryotic
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viruses? They will have a caps it a protein coding over it.
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You might have to use electron microscope to get a closer
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look at it because viruses are either living or non living.
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So also you want to get into
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looking at the inside of that cell or virus as well.
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Um There's a difference in between the nucleus and the D. N. A. Of the precarious.
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And you you curios and viruses you could be able to also
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learn about its relatives and um put it on a tax on me
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to figure out
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um where the in relation this microbe is related to.
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You also have its microbes niche where you're finding this in an environment.
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You can do isolation methods of other microbes where it's coming from.
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You can use coax partial it's and determining how this virus works.
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And so there are
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he um bacteria resistant bacteria. The um
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you can also have um bacteria that is in
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cold environment that can survive in cold environment.
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So microbes have a niche on this um
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by of the biodiversity on this planet.
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Also to um if it helps that another physical characteristic.
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And um looking at that um examination you can use dyes and staining so
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you can use acid fast staining.
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You can use a gram negative gram positive indigo staining flores sustaining.
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So this helps illuminate the pepto godlike and of the cell wall of that microbes.
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So that will help you see it better.
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You have um how I um converse with
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a person and educate that individual about vaccines.
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So this is something I do on a daily basis and the prevalence to about one person a day.
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So a lot of times people are still clear
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from vaccination because they're scared of possible side effects and
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things they're experiencing and that immuno body response when they're
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hearing other people are getting sick from the vaccine.
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They think we're giving them the virus or giving them the
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bacteria but it's a killed off a weakened form of it.
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So I explained to them
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things that you do like the vaccines such as washing your hands,
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washing your body um throw away your fruits and vegetables that are spoiled or bad.
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So running joke we have in our allergy immunization
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realm is that people are quick to throw away
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when they hear from a new source about contaminated e coli salmonella vegetables.
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But they're quick to steer away from getting vaccinated.
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So vaccination is not just protection of potentially
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picking up a communicable or non communicable disease.
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It is also protect the elderly.
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It protects against people who are immune compromised
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or people with a weakened immune system.
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It protects against um those who have contracts
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indicators of a component of the vaccine.
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So that happens. But when you're when you understand the chain of affection and how
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um it's very lense the rate of affection of how
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fast viruses because the spread is too late to sometimes
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um
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do something about it because you're amongst people
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every day who are a some symptomatic,
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you don't see signs and symptoms and then people you see signs and symptoms.
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So it's um it unfortunately disrupts the um your values of going to work or to school.
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You're picking up um
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this infectious disease
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and compromising other individuals as well.
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So I say look at things you're doing and things
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you're valuing of taking care of yourself and throwing away those
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spoiled and bad um contaminated foods and look what vaccines do
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they protect you and give you those antibodies to fight off
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harmful infections and microbes.
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So vaccination is a wonderful thing to look at overall as a big picture
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and describing to positive to negative relationships we have
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with microbes and some disadvantages advantages of each relationships.
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I think about Ed Young's book,
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he talks about so much symbiosis of the relationships we have with microbes,
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whether it's parasitic, whether it's mutual communalism,
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these things um shape our lives and every aspect we wear a coat of microbes every day,
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every day we have microbes on us and these changes won't from the time
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we walk out of the house and get exposed to different microbes and um
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the micro diversity of having that.
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But in the same token that the disruption of your microbiota from infections
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getting cuts is a disadvantage and other people can get sick as well.
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And the same um of exposure of microbes and
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um immunity from mom through breastfeeding through vaginal birth.
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It kind of holds true to the old friends theory was um in one of the
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lectures that talked about that um if we
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get exposed to these germs and microbes early on
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that we don't get as sick or um
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I feel bad when we are infected with certain Migros. So
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it's important
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um that exposure can develop a stronger immune system
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on the negative side of the that however from
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that mom can also um give a disease to that child or whether it's communicable,
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noncommunicable
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but also pollution is another source of where um
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the negative effects of being amongst microbes being amongst um vectors of
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carriers such as insects that can potentially spread harmful infectious disease.
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So from this the advantage that we learn from this is learning
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to um have a better waste management system to clean our water sources
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to use pesticides maybe not to extend um how heavily toxin pesticides can be
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but there are natural ones that can kill off certain bugs or mosquitoes.
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We have a negative impact of the um
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crops dying from mostar prematurely rotting
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from certain diseases. And this comes
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into
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the workings of it causing um inflation of food sources.
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It causes famine amongst communities around the world, tribes around the world.
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So we have agricultural methods which is an advantage so we can um
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we could use the biotechnology to alter the D. N. A.
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That way we're selecting the um strands of D. N. A.
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Or strands of that um plant that can be really existed
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against those molds and conditions we could do um no till
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agricultural ng where we're not tossing up microbes and causing the
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plants to become effective because now we have a higher crop yield
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and many applications of microcystis.
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This so many of them and whether it is
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for protection whether it's for um oral tolerance.
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But the top five once I pick was water treatment of the anaerobic
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processes in which we're letting nature do its thing and reading some of
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the bacteria instead of dousing a bunch of chemicals killing that process um
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And water treatment facilities we use microbes and bacteria to kill off um
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other microbes in that water and the um that degradation foundation of that helps
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get rid of like oils and toxins in that water in that water treatment process
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it helps us with our immunity.
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It um as long as we're exposed to microbes are body learns to either accept or reject.
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But um
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expect exposure helps build a stronger immune
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system or resistance to particular food allergy
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antibiotic production.
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So um antibiotics are made from soil microbes or from fungi that helps uh
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kill certain bad microbes whether by destroying
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their cell walls or killing their D.
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N. A. Or in the stop reproduction of micro's. So microbes um can reproduce matters.
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And minutes binary vision of um when you see microbes in the microscope.
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So anna fox the do help put a stop to that. But now microbes um
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are coming back with a vengeance because there is no such thing as um
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antibiotic resistance where people are not um utilizing antibiotics correctly.
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And now microbes are mutating and where once was affecting us is now affecting us.
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We have
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um that it promotes substance for human health, our gut bacteria,
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our gut microbiota, things we're used to eating.
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So it comes from
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how we process certain foods and that vitamin K.
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And green leafy vegetables is good for your gut health which I had no idea about.
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Um I enjoy um korean dish of kimchi and didn't
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know that the properties of the lactic acid helps for um
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um gut
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microbiota.
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Um You have yogurts,
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uh um Probiotics that help with that that way our digestive system can better um
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absorb nutrients.
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So all the nutrient cycles are good. Everything on this earth.
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Everything that thrives and live off of the communalism, communalism,
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mutual ism characteristics can be parasitic but
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nonetheless the boss recycled nitrogen cycle,
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photosynthesis.
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Um
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Water cycle sulfur cycles. These are
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things that the constant cycles of um um that affects the hierarchy of the
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um food chain
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and the different troves.
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De composers, things like that help circulate and move about.
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The microbes are on earth and this is highly important in order to maintain
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that symbiosis and equilibrium amongst the microbes
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that we share a relationship with.
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Alright overall so much to be learned from microbiology,
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I gotta talk more about this but the recording only lets me for president do it for
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Um 15 minutes.
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But I appreciate all your lectures and I appreciate
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um learning about microbes are more than just harm.
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It is good to have a good summer