Chapter 27 Flashcards
What is so significant about the Flashlight Fish?
They use bioluminescent bacteria which are found in their membranes. They light up to attract prey and mates.
What is symbiosis?
Some kind of relationship between two species.
What is a Mutualism symbiosis?
It is when both species are benefitted. Birds get food off of ox or hippo and the hippo is cleaned. Sharks with the fishes that follow them. The fish get protection while sharks are cleaned.
What is a competition symbiosis?
When both have negative effects.
Ex: Deer and Elk or Chipmunks and squirrels who compete for nuts to survive
What is a parasitic/predator and prey symbiosis?
Example will be a Jack Rabbit being hunted.
What is a conventional symbiosis?
one is benefitted but the other organism has no effect.
Ex: bacteria in stomach; benefits the bacteria but does nothing to us
What is a Amensalism symbiosis?
One organism has a negative effect and the other has no effect.
Ex: humans stepping on an ant
What are extreme prokaryotes?
They are prokaryotes that have specific traits and have adapted to extreme conditions.
What are some conditions that Extreme Prokaryotes can live in?
(Halobacterium) some are the most salt tolerant species on Earth. (like ones living in the Great Salt Lake)
(Deinococcus radiodurans) can tolerate 3 million rads of radiation (3,000 times the human lethal dose)
(Picrophilus oshimae) can grow at a pH of 0.03 (acidic enough to dissolve metal)
What are the different parts of the bacteria?
Fimbriae Capsule Cell wall Circular chromosome Internal organization Flagella Sex pilus
Describe the sex pilus
It is the part of the bacteria that looks like a fimbriae but is a long structure.
Describe the fimbriae
can help move bacteria around little hairs around the capsule
- also allow some prokaryotes to stick to surfaces or other organisms
Describe the flagella
A structure that propels and moves bacteria around aqueous solutions etc.
What are the three different shapes of prokaryotes?
Spherical
Rod shaped
spiral
What are Gram Positive bacteria?
They are the type of bacteria that have the peptidoglycan layer on the outside of the bacteria.
What are Gram Negative bacteria?
The type of bacteria that have the peptidoglycan layer on the inside of the cell wall of bacteria.