Question:
What are the major groups of microorganisms?
Answer:
There are five major groups of micro-organisms:
(i) Bacteria - They are single celled disease-causing micro-organisms. They can be spiral or rod- shaped.
(ii) Fungi - They are mostly multicellular disease-causing microbes. Bread moulds are common examples of fungi.
(iii) Protozoa - They mainly include organisms such as Amoeba, Plasmodium.etc.
They can be unicellular or multicellular.
(iv) Virus -Viruses are disease-causing microbes that reproduce only inside the host organism.
(v) Algae - They include multicellular, photosynthetic organisms such as Spirogyra, Chlamydomonas, etc.
