Chapter 2/4: Bacterial Cytoplasm

Question 1

What is the largest structure in the bacterial cytoplasm?

Answer 1

DNA nucleoid

Question 2

What structure is mainly for storage in bacteria?

Answer 2

Inclusion bodies

Question 3

What type of bacterial inclusion bodies are used in carbon storage?

Answer 3

Polyhydroxybutyrate granules

Question 4

What type of bacterial inclusion bodies are used in sulfur storage?

Answer 4

Sulfur globules

Question 5

What type of bacterial inclusion bodies are used for buoyancy?

Answer 5

Gas vesicles

Question 6

What type of bacterial inclusion bodies are the location for carbon fixation?

Answer 6

Carboxysomes

Question 7

What type of organisms would you find carboxysomes?

Answer 7

Autotrophic organisms

Question 8

What type of organisms would you find sulfur globules?

Answer 8

Chemosynthetic organisms

Question 9

What type of bacterial inclusion bodies are associated with direction finding?

Answer 9

Magnetosomes

Question 10

What type of cytoskeleton proteins provide an internal structural support framework?

Answer 10

MreB proteins

Question 11

What type of cytoskeleton proteins polymerize to form actin-like helical bands next to plasma membrane?

Answer 11

MreB proteins

Question 12

What type of cytoskeleton proteins direct cell wall formation during cell division?

Answer 12

FtsZ proteins

Question 13

What structure is formed during cell division by FtsZ proteins?

Answer 13

Z-ring

Question 14

Which two bacterial cytoskeleton proteins help move plasmids to opposite poles prior to cell division?

Answer 14

ParR, ParM

Question 15

What type of bacterial cytoskeleton proteins polymerize to separate plasmids during cell division?

Answer 15

ParM

Question 16

What type of bacterial cytoskeleton proteins act to align magnetosomes to one another?

Answer 16

MamK