Bacteria

Duration: 0:19:11

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses photomicrography and laboratory demonstrations to show the basic characteristics of bacteria, including their structures, ways of feeding, and reproductive processes. Explains how bacteria are classified according to their shape and their methods of obtaining food. Discusses the importance of bacteria to man as the first link in certain food chains, as aids to soil enrichment and plant growth, as agents in decomposition, as causes of disease in plants and animals, and as aids in curing certain diseases.

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