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Insects (mosquitoes, lice, fleas, bed bugs) and ticks are able to transmit a number of diseases caused by infectious agents: viruses (chikungunya virus, yellow fever, dengue fever, etc.), bacteria (Lyme disease, plague, etc.), parasites (malaria, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, filariasis, etc.)
They were gigantic. Way bigger than a normal toroise
The right answer is Nutrients and water.
All unicellular organisms such as bacteria and fungi need water, a source of energy, a source of carbon, a source of nitrogen and mineral elements. These basic needs are sufficient to allow the nutrition of bacteria qualified as prototrophs. Some bacteria called auxotrophs require, in addition to basic needs, the presence of growth factors.