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=Bacteria= From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia {| class="infobox biota" style="font-size:14px;border-color:rgb(170,170,170);color:black;margin-top:0.5em;margin-right:0px;line-height:1.5em;width:200px;" ! colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;"|Bacteria Temporal range: Archaean – Recent ! colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;"|Scientific classification ! colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;"|Phyla Actinobacteria (high-G+C) Firmicutes (low-G+C) Tenericutes (no wall)
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 * colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;font-size:12.32px;"|Escherichia coli image is 8 micrometres wide.
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 * colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;font-size:12.32px;"|A diagram of a typical bacterium
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 * colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;font-size:12.32px;"|A diagram of a typical bacterium
 * colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;font-size:12.32px;"|A diagram of a typical bacterium
 * colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;font-size:12.32px;"|A diagram of a typical bacterium
 * style="vertical-align:top;"|Domain:
 * style="vertical-align:top;"| Bacteria
 * style="vertical-align:top;"| Bacteria
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 * Gram positive / no outer membrane
 * Gram positive / no outer membrane
 * Gram negative / outer membrane present

Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Deinococcus-Thermus Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Synergistetes
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Acidobacteria Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres Planctomycetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermotogae Bacteria (sing. bacterium) are very small organisms. They are prokaryotic microorganisms. Bacterial cells do not have a nucleus, and most have no organelles with membranes around them. Most have a cell wall. They do have DNA, and their biochemistry is basically the same as other living things. They are amongst the simplest and the oldest organisms. They function as independent organisms.
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Almost all bacteria are so tiny they can only be seen through a microscope. Bacteria are made up of one cell, so they are a kind of unicellular organism. They are among the simplest single-celled organisms on Earth, and were one of the earliest forms of life. They include a number of extremophiles which live in extreme habitats.

There are probably more individual bacteria than any other sort of organism on the planet.[1]  Most bacteria live in the ground or in water, but many live inside or on the skin of other organisms, including humans. There are about ten times as many bacterial cells as human cells in each of our bodies. Some bacteria can cause diseases, but others help us in everyday activities like digesting food (gut flora). Some even work for us in factories, producing cheese and yogurt.

The founder of bacteriology was a German biologist called Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898). He published the first biological classification of bacteria, based on their appearance.[2]