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This website gives a brief explanation of the benefits of bacteria. There are links that will take you to systematics of bacteria, fossils of early bacteria, life history and ecology of bacteria, and morphology of bacteria.
A Bozeman Science video describing what a bacteria cell is, what it is composed of, and what bacteria do. The sources of carbon for bacteria are explained (photoheterotrophs, chemoautotrophs, and lithoheterotrophs). The video talks about recent research in the field showing that bacteria do communicate with each other.