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Bacteria and Archaea Taxonomy Flashcards

1
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only prokaryotes with plantlike, oxygen-generating photosynthesis

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cyanobacteria

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2
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causes Lyme disease

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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3
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causes syphilis

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Treponema pallidum

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helical gram-negative heterotrophs spiral through their environment by means of rotating, internal, flagellum-like filaments

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spirochaetes

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5
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phylum of Borrelia burgdorferi

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Spirochaetes

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phylum of Treponema pallidum

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Spirochaetes

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7
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Lack peptidoglycan completely; depend on their hosts for resources as basic as ATP

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Chlamydias

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most common cause of blindness in the world and also causes nongonococcal urethritis, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States.

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Chlamydia trachomatis

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9
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class of helicobacter pylori

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Epsilon Proteobacteria

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10
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phylum of helicobacter pylori

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Proteobacteria

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11
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class of campylobacter

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Epsilon Proteobacteria

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12
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phylum of campylobacter

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Proteobacteria

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13
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mostly pathogenic class of Proteobacteria

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Epsilon Proteobacteria

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14
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class of bdellovibrios

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Delta Proteobacteria

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15
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class that includes slime-secreting myxobacteria

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Delta Proteobacteria

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16
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attack other bacteria, charging at up to 100 μm/sec; drills into its prey by using digestive enzymes and spinning at 100 revolutions per second.

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bdellovibrios

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17
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causes Legionnaires’ disease

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Legionella

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18
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causes cholera

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Vibrio cholerae

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19
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class of Legionella

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Gamma Proteobacteria

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20
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class of Vibrio cholerae

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Gamma Proteobacteria

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21
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class of Thiomargarita namibiensis

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Gamma Proteobacteria

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22
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class of Nitrosomonas

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Beta Proteobacteria

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23
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class of Rubrivivax

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Beta Proteobacteria

24
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class of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Beta Proteobacteria

25
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class of Proteobacteria often mutualistic with eukaryotes

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Alpha Proteobacteria

26
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class of mitochrondria

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Alpha Proteobacteria

27
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class of Rhizobium

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Alpha Proteobacteria

28
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class of Agrobacterium

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Alpha Proteobacteria

29
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causes bacterial dysentery

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causes bacterial dysentery

30
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can survive 3 million rads of radiation

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Deinococcus radiodurans

31
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archaea that have red membrane pigments, some of which capture light energy that is used to drive ATP synthesis

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Halobacterium

32
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can grow at a pH of 0.03 (acidic enough to dissolve metal)

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Picrophilus oshimae

33
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can be as large as 750 µm in diameter—bigger than a poppy seed

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Thiomargarita namibiensis

34
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causes anthrax

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Bacillus anthracis

35
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smallest bacteria; only bacteria known to lack cell walls.

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Mycoplasmas

36
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archaea phylum; many extreme halophiles, a few thermophiles, and all methanogens

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Euryarchaeota

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superphylum of archaea

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superphylum of archaea

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archaea phylum containing most thermophiles

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Crenarchaeota

40
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phylum of Sulfolobus

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Crenarchaeota

41
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phylum of “strain 121”

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Crenarchaeota

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phylum of many nitrogen fixers

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Crenarchaeota

43
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closely related to TACK archaea and that could possibly represent the long sought-after sister group of the eukaryotes

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Lokiarchaeotes

44
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causes tuberculosis

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

45
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most widespread pest-carried disease in the US

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Lyme disease

46
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infection by Chlositridium difficile

47
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causes typhoid

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Salmonella typhi

48
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pathogenic “bloody diarrhea” variant of E. coli that can spread to other E. coli through recombination

49
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natural plastic that bacteria use to store chemical energy

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PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate)

50
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phylum of bacteria causing tuberculosis and leprosy

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Gram Positive

51
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class of bacteria causing tuberculosis and leprosy

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Actinomycetes

52
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Antibiotic derived from Streptomycetes

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streptomycin

53
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phylum of streptomycetes

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Gram Positive

54
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class of streptomycetes

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Actinomycetes

55
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class of E. coli

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Gamma Proteobacteria

56
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three archaea phyla more closely related to the Crenarchaeota than they are to the Euryarchaeota

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Thaumarchaeota, Aigarchaeota, and Korarchaeota

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