https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy In the Padlet below, write 2-3 sentences to answer WHY it is helpful to understand how microbes "work." Include one benefit or challenge of working with microbes. Don't forget your first name, last initial in your title! en-us 2017-02-20 04:40:16 UTC 2025-12-28 18:59:31 UTC hello@padlet.com catherine_macek https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/154859242 Write 2-3 sentences to answer WHY it is helpful to understand how microbes "work." Include one benefit or challenge of working with microbes.]]> 2017-02-20 04:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/154859242 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177463904  If we fully understand how microbes work, we can use them to their full potential for medicine.  Also,  since there are microbes all around us, there will be no shortage of them.]]> 2017-06-26 16:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177463904 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177483849 It is and will be very helpful to understand how microbes work and why they work that way. A benefit of using these microbes is that even if you fail to stop the problem you won't be putting anything harmful into your body. 

]]> 2017-06-26 21:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177483849 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177494008 If we are able to fully understand the biology of microbes, we will be able to use them in biotechnology. We could use them to successfully create machines that cure cancer. Working with microbes can be hard to get the ideal setting to test them though.]]> 2017-06-27 00:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177494008 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177498301 Understanding how microbes work is very helpful to us. We can make insulin for those who can not produce it on their own. Understanding them can also help us prevent from getting sick to them and can help us treat them.]]> 2017-06-27 01:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177498301 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177501595 Figuring out how microbes work allows for us to advance in helping people with mutations and disease. So far that has been a huge benefit in helping people around the world. It can be hard accurately changing the gene with delivery of the virus but if we can get gene therapy to work consistently we will have advanced a great deal concerning the biotech industry.]]> 2017-06-27 02:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177501595 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177568224 Understand how microbes work is helpful to us in many ways. It is helpful because if we further the understanding of microbes we can treat and/or cure it. One example is type 1 diabetes which is when a person has little to no insulin, but scientist have used microbes to create and harvest insulin to treat these patients. ]]> 2017-06-27 15:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177568224 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177575311 Understanding how microbes function is beneficial to humans because the more we understand about them, the more precisely we can manipulate to them to help us. For example, scientists have treated type 1 diabetes by using microbes to procure insulin for the patients.]]> 2017-06-27 17:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177575311 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177577757 The oodles of microbes that live on and inside us protect us from pathogens simply by taking up space. Microorganisms used in research have many useful properties. They grow on simple, cheap medium and often give rise to large populations in a matter of 24 hours.]]> 2017-06-27 17:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177577757 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177581481 Understanding how microbes work can help us advance in the medical field. Microbes can be inserted with a human protein a replicate it which can produce human proteins that help people who are incapable of producing it by themselves such as the protein insulin. People with diabetes type 1 can't produce or produce very little insulin which can be very deadly. Now with this process they can get the insulin they need.

]]> 2017-06-27 18:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177581481 jucasa434 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177592184 Understanding how microbes work is very helpful to us and many other people. It is important to all of humanity. A small challenge is to spot microbes so we use high powered microscopes. Microbes can help us learn more about the human body and how reactions and chemicals work in the body. This information can help us create and help many people in the future. ]]> 2017-06-27 21:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177592184 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177593178 If we interact more with microbes, the more we will understand them. They can be helpful in innumerable ways- like gene therapy, or growing things at a fast rate, or even replicate certain chemicals in our body. If we can learn to properly engineer these microbes, then we will have virtually an unlimited supply because there are quadrillions of microbes out there- and they are still growing exponentially.]]> 2017-06-27 21:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177593178 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177675029 It is helpful to understand how microbes work, because they are very beneficial in many of the medical, technological, and biological fields. Even in the most everyday thing, you can find the use of microbes implemented there. Take yogurt for example. Yogurt was just milk that was exposed to bacteria which turned it into yogurt. There are so many uses for microbes that there is no reason not to study them so we could discover more beneficial uses. ]]> 2017-06-28 18:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177675029 jachak214 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177684243 Understanding the role of microbes in the world is a crucial part of biotechnology. Bacteria is a huge part of our daily life. It's estimated that there are about 10 times as many bacterial cells than human cells in/on each human. Bacteria also has a lot of uses, cheese making, yogurt making, composting, and as we were learning about in this lesson it helps to produce insulin. I was reading about students at Newcastle University that found a way to make self-repairing concrete using bacteria. Humanity benefits from this knowledge because there are so many potential uses of microbes that we are yet to discover.

]]> 2017-06-28 20:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177684243 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177686512 It is helpful to understand how microbes function so they can be better used in biotechnology. Bacteria, viruses, and other kinds of microbes are all around us and each different one functions differently. Knowing the way they work would help us understand which ones are helpful and which are harmful, and how to rid of the ones that are harmful. If we didn't know how microbes work, gene therapy would be less likely, as without knowledge of how viruses function, we wouldn't know we could make viruses that could actually repair use and make us healthier.]]> 2017-06-28 21:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177686512 emjack357 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177689255 I believe microbes are vital, we need to understand how they work for the best future possible. They create things like bread or filter out toxins. We need them in our everyday lives. Understanding how microbes work can help create medications for diseases such as cancer. If we didn't have microbes, we wouldn't be alive. Microbes can be modified to our needs and possibly wants. It can help people overcome a problem such as diabetes. Working with microbes can also help us further understand our bodies and their functions, which is never a bad thing to do!]]> 2017-06-28 22:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177689255 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177864133 It is important to understand how microbes function. This is so, because if we don't now how they work, then we would not be able to give certain people medicine or the care that they need to be healthy. If we know as much as we can about this topic, then we may, in the future, be able to find a cure for strong cancers, and other life-taking diseases]]> 2017-07-01 16:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177864133 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177918195 It's critical that we know how microbes function because if we don't, the wrong medicines would be prescribed to patients. Also, gene therapy would be less likely and we wouldn't know how viruses or bacteria function or how to repair genes.]]> 2017-07-03 03:53:28 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/177918195 https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/178047306 2017-07-04 17:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/catherine_macek/qinwp564yrfy/wish/178047306