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Can you imagine a world without bacteria and fungi. How it will be?

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1. The whole place would be littered with dead material of living organisms since bacteria and fungi are nature's scavengers and decompose the dead waste.
2. Nutrients taken from soil by plants will not be returned to the soil without bacteria and fungi.
3. There will be soil odour.
4. Disease causing pathogens will increase in number and affect all living organisms.
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