Human Body

Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases \x96 pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot. If we didn't have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut!

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