There are indeed some very harmful bacteria but we also have a host of beneficial bacteria in existence and with which our lives are made possible. Digestion of food requires some beneficial bacteria for instance. Besides humans, plants also need the beneficial bacteria to synthesize food, to decompose matter for nutrients to ripen fruits. Similar usage of beneficial bacteria is exhibited among animals.
From now on, you should regard the term bacteria as a class of unicellular microorganisms, which are characterized by variant shapes and which inhabit almost every ecosystem on planet earth. These microorganisms are also present in human being bodies (Your colon for instance), in animals and also plants. Imagine this. Research has established that you actually have more bacteria in your body than the number of cells. The number of beneficial bacteria we have exceeds by far the human population in the world. When you ate the most effective bath, your skin surface is left with over a million bacteria in every square centimeter of your body.
That should not scare you though, since most of these bacteria are beneficial to you. Bacteriology (study of bacteria types and characteristics) is a core branch of the larger discipline of microbiology. Research has helped establish the names of some beneficial bacteria in existence today since the ages when the Dutch merchant, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, first discovered bacteria.
Bacteria are classified based on their shape (coccus bacteria have spherical shapes, bacillus bacteria have rod-like shapes, spirochete bacteria are spiral in shape, vibrio bacteria are shaped like the comma etc). Probiotics help the skin, gut microflora immune system and mucous lining to fight and prevent diseases. The gut microflora especially is especially riddled with beneficial bacteria all the way from the intestines.
Interestingly, bacteriology has assigned human-like names and surnames to some known beneficial bacteria. The following is a list of names of some known beneficial bacteria.
References
http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Beneficial-Bacteria
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/beneficial-bacteria-names.html
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17841099/beneficial-bacteria-your-most.html
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