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So here we have a rather broad kind of philosophical question.
00:04
So what is the purpose of studying eukaryotic microorganisms? or i suppose, what is the purpose of microbiology? well, there are a number of different purposes.
00:14
And i'll start with sort of the broadest and then somewhat narrowed down, you know, what the purpose is.
00:19
So as with any ology or study of sort of the most broad, at the most broad and abstract level, the purpose of studying anything, i suppose, is to acquire knowledge, or understanding, or, you know, preferably both.
00:36
So by studying anything, and in this specific case, the topic of microorganisms, eukarytic microorganisms, we acquire knowledge and understanding of them, right? and, you know, i suppose you could ask that, you could say that's a little bit of a cop -out answer.
00:49
So what is the point of understanding eukarytic microorganisms better? how does that sort of practically benefit us? well, there are a couple of fields that we can talk about.
00:57
We can talk about ecology.
00:58
We could talk about medicine, and we can talk about, you know, environmental studies.
01:08
Right.
01:09
So from an ecology standpoint, eukarytic microorganisms are useful in the sense that they are present in nearly every single ecosystem...