Question

Like all forms of life on Earth, all microbial cells perform three major types of activities: __________.

1. growth, differentiation, and metabolism
2. growth, genetic exchange, and evolution
3. metabolism, growth, and genetic exchange
4. metabolism, growth, and evolution

Answer 1

4. metabolism, growth, and evolution

Step-by-step explanation:

Living organisms show different characteristics like respiration, movement, metabolism, growth, evolution, respiration, excretion, nutrition. Most of the microbes are microscopic and unicellular which means they are made up of only one cell but they are also living.

They perform three major types of activities like metabolism, growth, and evolution. This can be seen by culturing bacteria on suitable media. So in the medium, it can be observed that they consume the food present in media and extract energy from it through metabolic activities and are showing growth. All micro-organisms evolve due to mutation. So the correct answer is 4.