Archaea Flashcards

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Habitats of Archea

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very extreme environment

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2
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The polyphasic approach to taxonomy uses these methods

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  • Phylogenetic analysis
  • Phenotypic analysis (motility,capsule,virulence)
  • Genotypic analysis (presence-absence of specific genes)
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3
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what’s the method of MLST

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  • several housekeeping genes from a species are sequenced

- aligned to the respective sequences of other individuals of the same specie

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4
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MLST has sufficient resolving power to distinguish?

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btw very closely related strains

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5
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ho does MLST works?

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1-isolate DNA
2-Amplify 6-7
3- Sequence
4-Allele analysis
5-Compare with other strains and generate tree
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