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What’s Living on You Article WS
Directions: Answer all questions below in complete sentences based on the article.
1.
What are microbes?
2.
How many cells make up your human body? How many microbes that you can’t see are living
inside you and on you?
3.
What is the human microbiome?
4.
What microbes are in your mouth? What can they cause?
5.
What microbes are located in your armpits and on your feet? What can they cause?
6.
Where are propionibacteria located? Where do they thrive?
7.
What bacteria are located in your intestines? What do they do? (Explain both types)
8.
Where do the most bacteria live? Why do they mostly live there?
9.
What does a DNA sequencer do?
10. What does Lactobacillus do for us?
11. Explain microbe transplants. What did they do for the patient?