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Microorganisms started life on Earth billions of years ago. They started the Biosphere from the formation of photosynthesis by bacterial creating an oxygen atmosphere that helped plants and animals to develop. Microbes are usually unicellular and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Without microorganism, nothing would be supported and maintained on Earth in nature and life. Microbes help keep nature’s water and soil clean by removing toxins and degrade organic matter in a form of recycling from dead animals and plants (Anon., 2014).
Species of Microorganisms can survive in different types of habitats like; any pH range (like extreme acid to extreme alkaline), growth in temperature (like hot environment of 144C to cold environments -15C), salinity range (like fresh water to sodium chloride saturation) (Mahony, 2009). Microbes have evolved into a great number of mechanisms to digest food, reproduce and finds energy. For agriculture, medicine, warfare and energy production, scientists uses these skills to create them (Noel, n.d.).
Microbe play an important part on earth ecosystems composing of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen. They can be beneficial or hazardous to nature and in Biotechnology processes.

The Importance in Nature of Microorganisms
How Microorganisms function for Nature
Microorganisms are important in nature as they consists of elements such as Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen , Nitrogen etc. to produce living material. Nutrients from these elements are important to different types of organisms. Microorganisms primary elements; Carbon, Oxygen and Nitrogen helps the earths ability to recycle the makeup of all living systems (Kenneth Todar, 2012).
Primary Production
Photosynthetic organisms are involved in primary production. ...

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...orpses into the walled city to break out diseases. Before scientists fully understood how diseases were caused by microbes, the events like the colonization of the Americas included many cases of Europeans using the smallpox virus against their native population.
Scientists in the 20th century have refined the technique in warfare by using microbes as the weapon. Biological warfare or bioterrorism was used in such wars like the two world wars, where Germany used microbial disease on their enemies and prisoners of war. Other countries started to develop their own biological weapons like “anthrax” (a type of microbe bacteria) that affects the pulmonary, gastrointestinal and cutaneous on humans and animals. Some countries still uses biological weapons programs but other countries have signed treaties to limit the use of biological weapons (Noel, n.d.)

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