{"id":203483,"date":"2022-09-03T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203483"},"modified":"2022-09-03T19:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:14:02","slug":"microbes-enable-all-life-and-they-adapt-constantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/microbes-enable-all-life-and-they-adapt-constantly\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbes enable all life \u2014 and they adapt constantly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong>Microbes enable all life \u2014 and they adapt constantly<strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0<strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 &#8211; Biodiversity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context: This article discusses microbes and issues related to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Microbes<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>1) They have the ability to respond to the environment by constantly adapting to the environment. 2) Microbes have groups of molecules or proteins that behave like sensors when they see sugar and light. 3) They pass this information to cells and they move in that direction. 4) This process of movement is called <strong>taxis. 5) <\/strong>They have ph<strong>otoreceptor<\/strong> that senses different molecules and light wavelengths including infrared.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the problems with microbes?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Fertilizers entering into lakes allow microbes to grow into <strong>algal blooms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Algal blooms expand very fast and suck up nutrients and release virus and toxins which can poison animals.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Cyanobacteria<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It is a type of microbe.<\/p>\n<p>They are <strong>blue-green<\/strong> in colour because they have pigments which let them absorb lights for photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>They have existed for about two billion years and over the time they became mineralized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cMicrobes enable all life \u2014 and they adapt constantly\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a03rd September 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 &#8211; Biodiversity Context: This article discusses microbes and issues related to them. Microbes 1) They have the ability to respond to the environment by constantly adapting to the environment. 2)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/microbes-enable-all-life-and-they-adapt-constantly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microbes enable all life \u2014 and they adapt constantly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-203483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704765631},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}