How do microbes keep us healthy? they produce vitamins they boost our immune system they produce vitamins and boost our immune system
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1. Explain the nature of the symbiotic relationship between humans and the microbes that inhabit our intestinal system. a. How do microbes benefit from inhabiting our intestinal system? b. How do humans benefit from having microbes in our intestinal system? 2. What is the source of the bacteria that inhabit our intestinal system? 3. Give an example of a vitamin that is made by the bacteria in our intestinal system. a. What is the importance or function of this vitamin? b. Is it unusual that bacteria would produce an organic compound that is an important vitamin for human metabolic function? 4. Researchers estimate that as much as 10% of the calories we absorb are made available to us by microbial activity in our intestinal system. Explain the activity of microbes in our intestinal system that supplies us with these calories.
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Bacteria are helpful to humans in many ways including all of the following EXCEPT which one? Fighting off viruses Breakdown of raw sewage Production of vitamins in the human intestine Resident bacteria on the skin and in the gut tend to outcompete pathogenic bacteria so they cant get established to cause disease Production of soy sauce cheese, yogurt, pickles, and all kinds of other fermented foods Production of antibiotics
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