Advantages of microorganisms

1. The individual is small and the structure is simple.

From the morphological point of view, the individual is very small and invisible to the naked eye, so it needs to be observed with a microscope. Cell size is measured in microns and nanometers.

2. Reproduction is rapid

Rapid growth and reproduction, bacteria in laboratory culture conditions, dozens of minutes to several hours can reproduce a generation.

3. There are many metabolic types and strong activity.

4. Widely distributed

Microorganisms exist in places where there are higher organisms, and also in extreme environments where animals and plants cannot survive.

Step 5: a lot

In the local environment, there are many microorganisms, such as tens of millions to hundreds of millions of microorganisms per gram of soil.

6. variability

Compared with higher organisms, it is easy to mutate. Among all biological groups, the number of known microbial species is second only to angiosperms and insects. The genetic diversity of microorganisms in species is very rich.

Therefore, microorganisms are a good research object and have a wide range of uses.