Where Does Bacteria Live?
“What can cause your eye to be red and itchy, and also turn milk in to yogurt? The answer is bacteria. I’m Janice Creneti, and I’ve been teaching environmental science for over twenty years. I’m here today to answer the question “Where do bacteria live?” Well, it’s a pretty short answer, and the answer is ‘everywhere’. Bacteria are found on the surface of this table, in the corner of my eye, inside my mouth, and even growing inside my intestines. Bacteria are found inside water, and they also grow inside the bodies of things like termites. They actually have a bacteria which helps them digest wood. Now we’re mostly familiar with bacteria in terms of the bad things that it does, the diseases that it causes, the infections. Staph infections are a very serious problem that we’re having nowadays, and doctors are having a hard time fighting. But bacteria are also very important for our ecosystem, and very important for human health. As I mentioned, they’re necessary for turning milk in to y
