Bacteria & Protist Lab Flashcards

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3 Domains of Life

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  • Eukarya
  • Bacteria
  • Archaea
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What is the difference between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic?

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Eukaryotes have a membrane bound nucleus and Prokaryotes do not.

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Bacteria

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  • Prokaryotic
  • Most are decomposers
  • Somae are parasitic
  • A few are photosynthetic: Cyanobacteria
  • Gram Stain
  • On agar, bacteria grow as a colony.
  • 3 Shapes
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Cyanobacteria

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  • Formerly called Blue Green Algae
  • Do not have chloroplasts; have thylakoid membranes where photosynthesis happens
  • Gloeocapsa
  • Oscillatoria
  • Anabaena
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Gloeocapsa

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  • Single cells
  • Adhere together because each is surrounded by sticky, gelatinous sheath
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Oscillatoria

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  • Filamentous cells
  • Individual cells resemble tack of pennies
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Anabaena

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  • Filamentous
  • Individual cells are barrel-shaped
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Gram Positive

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  • A lot of peptidoglycan
  • Stains purple
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Gram Negative

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  • Thin layer of peptidoglycan
  • Stains Fushia or Red
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Colony

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Contains cells decended from one original cell

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Shapes of Bacterial Cell

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  • Spirillum: Spiral
  • Bacillus: Rod
  • Coccus: Spherical
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Protists

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Eukaryotes

  • Algae
  • Heterotrophic Protists
  • Slime Molds
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Algae

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Photosynthetic Protists

  • Green Algae
  • Brown Algae
  • Red Algae
  • Diatoms
  • Dinoflagellates
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Green Algae

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  • Spirogyra
  • Volvox
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Spirogyra

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Filamentous form with ribbonlike chloroplasts

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Volvox

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Cells are loosely associated (colonial forms)

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Brown Algae

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Commonly called seaweed or kelp

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Red Algae

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  • Smaller and more delicate than brown algae
  • Grow in shallow waters
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Diatoms

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  • Cell Wall: in two sections woth larger one fitting over the smaller with a “Shoebox lid” fit; c.w. inpregnated with silica
  • “Live in glass house”
  • cell walls do not decompose: Diatomaceous Earth- used in filters and insecticides
  • Photosynthetic and extremely abundant
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Dinoflagellates

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  • Have 2 flagells; one free and one wrapped around
  • Spin like a top
  • Can cause “Red Tide”
  • Toxins from red tide can cause widespread fish kills
  • Can cause paralysis in humans who eat shellfish that consume these protists
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Heterotrophic Protists

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  1. Injest food by forming food vacuoles
  2. Amoeba: Pseudopods
  3. Paramecium: “Slipper shaped”; ciliated
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Slime Molds

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  1. Once classified as fungi
  2. Unlike fungi, they phagocytize their food like amoeboids
  3. Types:
    1. Cellular Slime Molds
    2. Plasmodium
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Cellular Slime Molds

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Exists as indiviuals

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Plasmodium

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Fan shaped multinucleated mass