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What advantage might soil bacteria and
A category of a microscopic living cell which is generally one-celled are referred to as bacteria. It inhabits in water, soil, radioactive wastes and hot springs. The shape of bacteria will differ and length of bacteria is typically few micrometers. Any members of the eukaryotic multinucleate or single-celled organisms are called as fungi. It includes microorganism such as molds, and yeasts.
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Antibiotics are defined as the products of microbes and their derivatives that inhibit growth or kill microorganism susceptibility. Antibiotics are generated by some microorganisms such as fungi and soil bacteria in order to use for their own survival. The most potential advantage would be a particular species of bacteria may generate a substance that kills another species of bacteria which compete for the same living surfaces and nutrients because it otherwise uptake the substance that used by both species.
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