Question

discuss how multicellular organisms and viruses have benefited from prokaryotic cells.

Answer 1

Ans - Benefits of prokaryotic cells-

• Bacteria created the atmosphere’s oxygen levels, beginning around 2.5 billion years ago. These initial photosynthesizers, called cyanobacteria, still exist today. Their ancestors lived in a world with no atmospheric oxygen and used energy from the sun and chemicals in primordial oceans to create their own food, similar to modern plants.
• Bacteria in our guts and mouth help with the digestion of food by breaking down difficult to digest carbohydrates and other compounds.
• Waste breakdown- Decomposition is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide , water and mineral salt. The process is a part of the nutrient cycle and is essential for recycling the finite matter that occupies physical space in the biosphere. Bacteria act as decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, they carry out decomposition.
• Some species of bacteria even consume oil, and helped rapidly break down and eliminate large volumes of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
• Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substrates through the action of by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms.