# Bacteria

With teacher's guide

Uses photomicrography and laboratory demonstrations to show the basic characteristics of bacteria, including their structures, ways of feeding, and reproductive processes. Explains how bacteria are classified according to their shape and their methods of obtaining food. Discusses the importance of bacteria to man as the first link in certain food chains, as aids to soil enrichment and plant growth, as agents in decomposition, as causes of disease in plants and animals, and as aids in curing certain diseases

Collaborator, R. A. Slepecky

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1980
- By: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc
- Genres: Education, Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/bacteria_20160815)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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