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    Summary & Study Guide - Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You
    Summary & Study Guide - Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You
    Summary & Study Guide - Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You
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    Summary & Study Guide - Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You

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    Microbes connect all living and nonliving things on Earth

    This book is a summary of “Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You,” by Eugenia Bone.

    New discoveries about how microbes affect our lives occur every day, but it seems to require an advanced degree in biology to understand how they impact us. Journalist Eugenia Bone returned to college in her fifties to help make sense of these creatures. What she learned is that microbes connect to all living things. They also connect nonliving things to living things. They maintain the balance of chemicals on the planet and convert carbon dioxide into food that travels up the food chain. Inside our cells are the remnants of ancient bacteria called mitochondria that convert the oxygen we breathe into energy.

    In Microbia, Bone chronicles what she learned in her year of studying biology. It begins with the origin of life and how microbes affect the atmosphere and soil, connecting nonliving things to living things. She explores how microbes influence the evolution of all living things and why plants and animals evolve with their microbes.

    Read this primer to understand the entwined worlds of microbes and the rest of life on Earth.

    This guide includes:
    * Book Summary—helps you understand the key concepts.
    * Online Videos—cover the concepts in more depth.
    Value-added from this guide:
    * Save time
    * Understand key concepts
    * Expand your knowledge
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLMT Press
    Release dateMay 21, 2020
    ISBN9781988970226
    Summary & Study Guide - Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You
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    Lee Tang

    Lee Tang is a retired executive of a major global insurance company. Prior to his retirement, he has worked as an actuary, a risk officer and a chief financial officer for several major insurance organizations in the United States, Canada, and Taiwan. To learn more about Lee and his work, visit his website and blog at https://lmtpress.wordpress.com. You can reach him by email at leetang888@gmail.com.

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      Summary & Study Guide - Microbia - Lee Tang

      Microbes connect all living and nonliving things on Earth

      This book is a summary of Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You, by Eugenia Bone.

      New discoveries about how microbes affect our lives occur every day, but it seems to require an advanced degree in biology to understand how they impact us. Journalist Eugenia Bone returned to college in her fifties to help make sense of these creatures. What she learned is that microbes connect to all living things. They also connect nonliving things to living things. They maintain the balance of chemicals on the planet and convert carbon dioxide into food that travels up the food chain. Inside our cells are the remnants of ancient bacteria called mitochondria that convert the oxygen we breathe into energy.

      In Microbia, Bone chronicles what she learned in her year of studying biology. It begins with the origin of life and how microbes affect the atmosphere and soil, connecting nonliving things to living things. She explores how microbes influence the evolution of all living things and why plants and animals evolve with their microbes.

      Read this primer to understand the entwined worlds of microbes and the rest of life on Earth.

      This guide includes:

      Book Summary—helps you understand the key concepts.

      Online Videos—cover the concepts in more depth.

      Value-added from this guide:

      Save time

      Understand key concepts

      Expand your knowledge

      Important Note About This Guide

      This guide is a summary and not a critique/review of the book. The summary may not be organized chapter-wise but summarizes the book’s main ideas, viewpoints, and arguments. It is NOT meant to be a replacement, but a supplement to help you understand the book’s key ideas and recommendations.

      Title: Summary & Study Guide - Microbia

      Subtitle: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You

      Author: Lee Tang

      Publisher: LMT Press (lmtpress.wordpress.com)

      Copyright © 2019 by Lee Tang

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      First Edition: June 2019

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 9781988970226 (ebook)

      ISBN 9781091076594 (paperback)

      ISBN 9781987065022 (paperback)

      Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and author make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy or completeness of these contents and disclaim all warranties such as warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. The website addresses in the book were correct at the time going to print. However, the publisher and author are not responsible for the content of third-party websites, which are subject to change.

      To my wife, Lillian, who is the source of energy and love for everything I do, and to Andrew and Amanda: watching you grow up has been a privilege.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Introduction

      1. Six Ingredients Connect Us All

      2. How Microbes Created the Air We Breathe

      3. The Impossible Microbial Species Concept

      4. A Marriage of Microbes

      5. Microbes Make Landfall

      6. The Soil Microbiome

      7. Soil without Microbes

      8. The Plant Microbiome

      9. Your Microbiome Is a Park

      10. Our Microbiomes

      11. Germophobia and Microbiomania

      12. The Earth Microbiome

      Index

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Every organism is colonized by communities of microbes called microbiomes. There are microbiomes all over plants—microbiomes of the seed and the fruit and the leaves. There are over 100 trillion microbes living in our body. They live on our skin, in our mouth, nose, ears, esophagus, stomach, and our gut. These microbes are not a random mix of species. They have special genes that carry out many metabolic and protective functions for our body, extending the functions of human genes. Scientists call this dynamic community of microbes the microbiota and the totality of their genes the microbiome. Microbes living in our gut help us digest indigestible food. Microbes living on our skin keep pathogens at bay.

      What we eat feeds the microbes in

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