MICROORGANISMS

MICROORGANISMS

Imagine yourself being hit by a beam that

will make you shrink
Can you imagine a world where everything
around you is big?
Do you think you can survive that kind of
environment?
The early life forms on earth were also
very tiny organisms.
 1. BACTERIA

Singular: Bacterium
The organisms that were able to live
during the birth of the earth
a single-celled organism
most have cell walls that protect them
others have capsules to support them
they do not have nucleus
 CLASSIFICATION OF
BACTERIA (according to shape)
Spherical
Rod - shaped
Bent rods
Spiral - Shaped
 CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA
(by how they arrage themselves)
Single bacterium
Paired bacteria
Clustered together
Formed as chains
 2. PROTISTS
group of microorganisms
that existed 1.5 billion years
ago
single-celled organisms that
have nucleus
often found in watery
environments
may look like an animal or
plant
 PROTIST
When examined under a microscope, you
will see that they are structured to MOVE
examples:
- amoeba
- paramecium
- euglena
AMOEBA
a shapeless creature
that is often found in
fresh water
has pseudopods to
enable it to move
PSEUDOPODS are
feet-like structures
PARAMECIUM
a kind of protist that
use cilia to move
CILIA are short
hairlike organelles
found in cells
EUGLENA
protist that have taillike
structures to move
FLAGELLA , a whiplike
organelle that enables
euglena to move (singular:
flagellum)
a plant-like protist that
have chloroplast that
enables it to make food
 Do you notice that after it rains, there are
small planlike organisms near a dead log?
may come in white and brown colors
they are MUSHROOMS, which are FUNGI
 3. FUNGI
singular: Fungus
were considered plants for many years
they don't move actively like plants
they have CELL WALLS, but do not have
CHLOROPHYLL
do not have tissues that are present in
plants
 3. FUNGI
considered
DECOMPOSERS
when you examine a
mushroom under a
microscope, you will see
that it has a nucleus
doesn't have chloroplast
has a tubelike extension
called HYPAE