In this video, we're going to talk about some of the commercial benefits of microorganisms. Microorganisms can actually be used strategically by humans to make lots of money. They can be used to make really valuable products that can be bought and sold to make a profit. For example, microorganisms are used in food production to make foods such as bread, beer, milk, yogurt, and cheeses, which I personally love. Microorganisms can also be used to make valuable products such as antibiotics to help people defend against bad bacteria that may cause harm. They can also be used to make dietary supplements to help boost people's nutrition, to make biofuels to help power our vehicles used for transportation, and to make insecticides, which we can use on plants to help protect our plants and crops from insects. Microorganisms can also be used to make molecules that we use to make plastics, and, of course, we use plastics for so many different things.
Below, we're showing you an image that displays some of the commercial uses of microorganisms. On the far left, we are showing how bakers' and brewers' yeast, which are specific types of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can be used in the production of making wine, beer, and bread. They can also be used to produce cheeses such as blue cheese mold, Penicillin forte, which is used in cheesemaking to make different types of cheeses that you see here. Additionally, they can be used to make other valuable products such as penicillin antibiotics that humans can use to help defend against bad bacteria that might cause harm and disease. Penicillium rubens, a type of filamentous mold, is going to be used for making penicillin, a class of antibiotics. These antibiotics can be sold to help protect humans against bad bacteria.
Microorganisms can have a lot of commercial benefits, and there are many career opportunities in the microbiology field when it comes to using microorganisms for commercial purposes. This here concludes our introduction to how microorganisms can be commercially beneficial, and I'll see you in our next video.