Bacteria and Archaea Taxonomy

Question 1

only prokaryotes with plantlike, oxygen-generating photosynthesis

Answer 1

cyanobacteria

Question 2

causes Lyme disease

Answer 2

Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 3

causes syphilis

Answer 3

Treponema pallidum

Question 4

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

Answer 4

spirochaetes

Question 5

phylum of Borrelia burgdorferi

Answer 5

Spirochaetes

Question 6

phylum of Treponema pallidum

Answer 6

Spirochaetes

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Chlamydias

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Chlamydia trachomatis

Question 9

class of helicobacter pylori

Answer 9

Epsilon Proteobacteria

Question 10

phylum of helicobacter pylori

Answer 10

Proteobacteria

Question 11

class of campylobacter

Answer 11

Epsilon Proteobacteria

Question 12

phylum of campylobacter

Answer 12

Proteobacteria

Question 13

mostly pathogenic class of Proteobacteria

Answer 13

Epsilon Proteobacteria

Question 14

class of bdellovibrios

Answer 14

Delta Proteobacteria

Question 15

class that includes slime-secreting myxobacteria

Answer 15

Delta Proteobacteria

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

bdellovibrios

Question 17

causes Legionnaires’ disease

Answer 17

Legionella

Question 18

causes cholera

Answer 18

Vibrio cholerae

Question 19

class of Legionella

Answer 19

Gamma Proteobacteria

Question 20

class of Vibrio cholerae

Answer 20

Gamma Proteobacteria

Question 21

class of Thiomargarita namibiensis

Answer 21

Gamma Proteobacteria

Question 22

class of Nitrosomonas

Answer 22

Beta Proteobacteria

Question 23

class of Rubrivivax

Answer 23

Beta Proteobacteria

Question 24

class of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Answer 24

Beta Proteobacteria

Question 25

class of Proteobacteria often mutualistic with eukaryotes

Answer 25

Alpha Proteobacteria

Question 26

class of mitochrondria

Answer 26

Alpha Proteobacteria

Question 27

class of Rhizobium

Answer 27

Alpha Proteobacteria

Question 28

class of Agrobacterium

Answer 28

Alpha Proteobacteria

Question 29

causes bacterial dysentery

Answer 29

causes bacterial dysentery

Question 30

can survive 3 million rads of radiation

Answer 30

Deinococcus radiodurans

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Halobacterium

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Picrophilus oshimae

Question 33

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

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Thiomargarita namibiensis

Question 34

causes anthrax

Answer 34

Bacillus anthracis

Question 35

smallest bacteria; only bacteria known to lack cell walls.

Answer 35

Mycoplasmas

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Euryarchaeota

Question 37

superphylum of archaea

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TACK

Question 38

superphylum of archaea

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TACK

Question 39

archaea phylum containing most thermophiles

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Crenarchaeota

Question 40

phylum of Sulfolobus

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Crenarchaeota

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phylum of “strain 121"

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Crenarchaeota

Question 42

phylum of many nitrogen fixers

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Crenarchaeota

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Lokiarchaeotes

Question 44

causes tuberculosis

Answer 44

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Question 45

most widespread pest-carried disease in the US

Answer 45

Lyme disease

Question 46

infection by Chlositridium difficile

Answer 46

diarrhea

Question 47

causes typhoid

Answer 47

Salmonella typhi

Question 48

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

Answer 48

O157:H7

Question 49

natural plastic that bacteria use to store chemical energy

Answer 49

PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate)

Question 50

phylum of bacteria causing tuberculosis and leprosy

Answer 50

Gram Positive

Question 51

class of bacteria causing tuberculosis and leprosy

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Actinomycetes

Question 52

Antibiotic derived from Streptomycetes

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streptomycin

Question 53

phylum of streptomycetes

Answer 53

Gram Positive

Question 54

class of streptomycetes

Answer 54

Actinomycetes

Question 55

class of E. coli

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Gamma Proteobacteria

Question 56

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

Answer 56

Thaumarchaeota, Aigarchaeota, and Korarchaeota