Bacterial Taxonomy

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Science that studies organisms in order to arrange them into groups; those organisms with similar properties are grouped together and separated from those that are different.

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Taxonomy

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The process of arranging organisms into similar or related groups, primarily to provide easy identification and study.

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Classification

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The process of characterizing organisms.

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Identification

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The system of assigning of names to organisms.

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Nomenclature

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He proposed that the bacteria be placed in a plant kingdom in 1857?

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Carl von Nageli

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He proposed a mechanism for the theory of evolution in 1859.

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Charles Darwin

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He proposed the Kingdom Protista to include both organisms lacking a nucleus and simple nucleated organisms.

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Ernst Haeckel

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Introduced the term prokaryote to distinguish cells with no nucleus?

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Edward Chatton

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He provided the current definition of prokaryotes.

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Rofer Stanier

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Most widely accepted system proposed by RH Whittaker in 1969.

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Five-Kingdom System

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What are the five-kingdom systems?

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1. Plantae
2. Animalia
3. Fungi
4. Protista
5. Prokaryotae

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What are the three-domain system?

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1. Bacteria
2. Archaea
3. Eukarya

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The system is based on the work of Carl Woese and colleagues and who compared the sequences of nucleotide bases in ribosomal RNA from a wide variety of organisms.

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3-domain system

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He introduced the binomial system of nomenclature.

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Carlos Linnaeus

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Highest level, he divided all living things into 2 kingdoms?

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Plant
Animal

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Bacterial Nomenclature is governed by an international code prepared by the?

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International Committee on Systemic Bacteriology

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The approved lists of Bacterial Names in?

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International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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It varies from country to country and is in the local language?

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Casual or common name

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This name is same throughout the world.
First name: genus
Second name: the specific epithet

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Specific or International Name

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Taxonomic ranks in ascending order?

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1. Species
2. Genus
3. Family
4. Order
5. Class
6. Kingdom

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It is the standard taxonomical unit in biology?

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Species

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Bacterial species were originally based on?

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Phenotypic and genotypic differences

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It is a collection of strains that share many stable properties and differ significantly from other groups of strains.

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Bacterial species

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It is a population of organisms that descends from a single organism or pure culture isolate.

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Strain

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Strains that differ biochemically or physiologically?

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Biovars

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Strains that differ morphologically?

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Morphovars

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Strains that differ in antigenic properties?

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Serovars

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It provides identification schemes for identifying bacteria and archaea.

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Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology

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It provides phylogenetic information on bacteria and archaea

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Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

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It is useful for identifying eukaryotes

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Morphological characteristics

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Gram staining and acid-fast staining

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Differential staining

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It determines presence of bacterial enyzmes.

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Biochemical tests

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Classification within the species.

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Intraspecies classification

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Involves reactions of microorganisms with specific antibodies?

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Serology or serotyping

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Identification of bacteria species and strains by determining their susceptibility to various phages?

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Phage Typing

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It group organism together based on overall similarity of phenotypes

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Phenetic systems/Adansonian Classification

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Treelike diagram, used to display the results of numerical taxonomic analysis

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Dendogram

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Phenoms with ____ similarity often are equivalent to bacterial species.

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80%

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Involves placing organisms in a clade with their common ancestor?

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Phylogenetic Classification

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It is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence?

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DNA Sequencing

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It uses next-generation sequencing to reveal the presence and quantity of RNA in a biological sample at a given moment, analyzing the continuously changing cellular transcriptome.

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RNA Sequencing

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Number and sizes of DNA fragments produced by RE digests are used to determine genetic similarities?

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DNA fingerprinting

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SA technique in which single-stranded nucleic acids, DNAs or RNAs, are allowed to interct.

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Nucleic Acid Hybridization