What do germs and bacteria eat?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

There are billions of bacteria on Earth, and they’re everywhere. Bacteria are on every surface on the planet, and even live in the soil underground. Most bacteria are actually quite harmless to humans. They spend all of their time eating, resting, and making copies of themselves. But when bacteria decide it’s time for lunch, what do they eat? We asked microbiologist Daniel Bond to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s colonizing your brain? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll send an answer right BAC-ter-ya. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind Brains-On, this is the Moment of Um Um. Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Shayla Farson.
0:13.7	Um. Hey there, pals. Sorry about this big mess. It's a Friday and that means I'm reorganizing all of my cookbooks.
0:22.3	I've got a big collection because I love to try new things and make food for my friends.
0:27.6	Some people might say that one person doesn't need 837 cookbooks, but I say that's not nearly
0:34.4	enough. Hmm. Okay. Last time I organized my books by the author's last name.
0:41.7	I know, playing it safe.
0:43.7	Today, I want to try something a little more creative.
0:47.4	Like, oh, what about sorting by what my guests like best?
0:53.2	Like, if I have my friend Molly over for dinner, I'm definitely going to use my cottage cheese
0:58.2	cookery compendium cookbook, because cottage cheese is her favorite food.
1:03.0	Or if my pal Mark is visiting, I'm going to dust off my 99 nifty nachos cookbook.
1:09.1	And wait, hold on.
1:11.2	What's this cookbook?
1:13.1	I don't remember seeing this year before.
1:15.7	Baking for bacteria?
1:18.4	Huh.
1:19.4	Well, now that I think about it, I don't really know what germs and bacteria eat.
1:25.2	Maybe I should lend this book to my friend Adeline, who asked us this question.
1:29.5	Hi, my name is Adeline, and I'm from New York City. My question is, what do germs and
1:36.5	bacteria eat?
1:41.2	So a lot of organisms we think of are eating the same thing we do.
1:46.0	My name is Daniel Bond. I'm a professor of microbiology at the University of Minnesota.
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