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Bacteria Flashcards

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Shapes

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Spherical (cocci)
Rod (bacillus)
Spiral (Spirillum)

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Plasmid

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Circular piece of DNA containing few genes for drug resistance

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Mesosome

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Assists respiration

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Fagella

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Movement

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Capsule

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Protection

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Autotrophic

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Makes own food
Photosynthetic : light –> food
Chemosynthetic : Chemical reaction energy –> food

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Heterotrophic

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Take in food made by others
Saprophytic : Dead organic matter
Parasitic : Take food from live host

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Antibiotics

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Substance produced by microorganism that will stop growth/ kill other microorganism without damaging human tissue

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Facultative anaerobes

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Respire with or without oxygen
E.g. E.coli

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Obligate anaerobes

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Only respire without oxygen
E.g. Clostridium tetani

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