Different types include bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, algae, and viruses.

微生物有菌、古菌、真菌、原生动物、藻类和病毒等不同类型。

If you wanna get small, there's rotifers and other kinds of...protozoans.

如果你想要小一点，还有轮虫和其他种类......原生动物。

Most people have probably heard of Toxoplasma gondii, the parasitic protozoan that causes toxoplasmosis.

大数人可能都听说过刚地弓形虫，这种寄生性原生动物会引起弓形虫病。

Digestion of wood occurs by bacteria and protozoans in the intestinal tract of many termites.

木材消化是由蚁道菌和原生动物产生。

This protozoan has been linked in humans to congenital birth defects and nervous system damage.

这种原生动物已证明与人类先天性出生缺陷和神经系统损害有关。

Could a similar wandering dynamic be at play with gray wolves infected with a protozoan parasite?

感染原生动物寄生虫灰狼是否也有类似游荡动力？

What Leeuwenhoek had found were protozoa.

列文虎克发现是原虫。

He didn't peck you I need to give these guys on some anti protozoan medicines, as well as some dewormer.

他没有啄你我得给这些家伙一些抗原生动物药，还有一些驱虫剂。

So, still think we're different than the protozoa? Still think we're special?

那么，仍然认为我们与原生动物不同吗？还是觉得我们很特别？

Put a couple of protozoa into a petri dish full of nutrient goo.

将几个原生动物放入装满营养液培养皿。

Zooplankton – microscopic animals such  as protozoa that feed upon phytoplankton.

浮游动物——诸如原生动物这样微小动物，以浮游植物为食。

They are also used to tackle the Plasmodium protozoan parasites that cause malaria.

它们还被用于对抗引发疟疾疟原虫寄生虫。

Protozoa are going to be these microscopic animals.

原生动物就是这些微小动物。

And so what are the bacteria and the protozoa do?

那么，这些菌和原生动物在做什么呢？

Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, including protozoa, bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

微生物学是对微生物研究，包括原虫，菌，真菌和病毒。

Also known as forams, these are tiny protozoans that build shells of calcium carbonate.

也称为有孔虫，这些是微小原生动物 ，可以形成碳酸钙外壳。

Bacteria and archaea mingle with other microbes like algae, fungi, and protozoa, forming dense, organized structures that grow on almost any surface.

水澡，真菌，原生动物等微生物，与菌、古生菌混合，形成紧密、有序能在几乎所有表面上生长结构。

But viruses are smaller than bacteria and protozoa so it wasn't until the early 1940s that we got clear photographs of them.

但是病毒比菌和原生动物要小，所以直到20世纪40年代初我们才得到它们清晰照片。

From bacteria and algae to fungi and protozoa, soils are home to one quarter of Earth's biodiversity.

从菌和藻类到真菌和原生动物，土壤是地球生物样性四分之一家园。

What's the function of the protozoa?

原生动物功能是什么？