How do bacteria and fungi help the environment?

1 Answer
Dec 5, 2017

Both are essential for the breakdown of complex compounds for recycling them into the biosphere.

Explanation:

Fungi break down organic matter to a level at which the worms can take over, and not all bacteria are detrimental to health!

Going even further, our capabilities in genetic manipulation have now made bacteria even more useful in many areas of process production and waste minimization or mitigation that were not possible years ago.