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What are microbes?

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What are microbes?

SUBJECTS:  Science

YEARS:  5–6, 7–8


What are the four major groups that most microbes belong to?

Listen as Dr Taghrid Istivan explains where microbes are found.

What is the name of the group of microbes she describes as beneficial to our health?

Can you explain what happens when people get food poisoning?


Acknowledgements

Video © RMIT University.



Production Date: 8 Dec 2013


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