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Chapter 27: Bacteria and Archaea Flashcards

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Single-celled organisms

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Prokaryotes

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What domain do Prokaryotes belong to?

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Bacteria and Archaea

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What are the most abundant organisms on Earth?

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Prokaryotes

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What were the first organisms to inhabit Earth?

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Prokaryotes

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T/F: Prokaryotes are multicellular

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F: Prokaryotes are unicellular

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What are smaller: prokaryotic cells or eukaryotic cells?

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Prokaryotic cells

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What are the three kind of shapes of prokaryotes?

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Spheres (cocci), rods (bacilli), and spirals

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What are the 3 things that a cell wall does?

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Maintains shape, protects the cell, and prevents it from bursting in a hypotonic environment

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What happens to prokaryotes in hypertonic environment?

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Lose water and experience plasmolysis

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10
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What is used as a preservative

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Salt

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What are two examples of eukaryotes?

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Plants and fungi

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What are the cell walls of eukaryotes made of?

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Cellulose or chitin

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13
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What do bacterial cell walls contain?

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Peptidoglycan

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What is a peptidoglycan?

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A network of sugar polymers cross-linked by polypeptides

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What contains a variety of polysaccharides and proteins, but lack peptidoglycan?

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Archaeal walls

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16
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What do scientists used to classify bacteria by cell wall composition?

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The Gram stain

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What kind of bacteria have simpler walls with a large amount of peptidoglycan?

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Gram-positive

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The walls of what bacteria have less peptidoglycan and are more complex with an outer membrane that contains lipopolysaccharides?

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Gram-negative

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19
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What bacteria tend to be more resistant to antibiotics?

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Gram-negative

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20
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Antibiotics target what?

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Peptidoglycan

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What kind of cells lack peptidoglycan and are unaffected by antibiotics?

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Human cells

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What is a dense and well-defined sticky layer of polysaccharide or protein surrounding the cell wall?

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Capsule

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What is not well organized sticky layer of polysaccharide or protein surrounding the cell wall?

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Slime layer

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What is formed when water or nutrients are lacking, to withstand harsh conditions?

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Endospores

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25
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What can withstand extreme conditions and remain viable for centuries?

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Endospores

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What hairlike appendages allow them to stick to their substrate or other individuals in a colony?

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Fimbriae

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What are longer than fimbriae and function to pull cells together enabling the exchange of DNA?

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Pili or sex pili

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28
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Half of prokaryotes exhibit _______, the ability to move toward or away from a stimulus

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Taxis

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What is the most common structure used by prokaryotes for movement?

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Flagella

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What are the three differences between flagella in prokaryotes and eukaryotes?

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Structure, mechanism of propulsion, and molecular composition

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How many kinds of proteins are bacterial flagella composed of?

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42

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32
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What are the three parts of a bacterial flagella?

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Motor, hook, and filament

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33
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How much of the flagellum’s proteins are essential?

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Half

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34
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What do prokaryotic cells lack?

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Complex compartmentalization

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35
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T/F: Prokaryotes have less DNA and produce fewer proteins than the eukaryotes.

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T

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36
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Prokaryotes have one ______ chromosome.

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circular

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37
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Eukaryotes have ______ _______ chromosomes.

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Multiple linear

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38
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T/F: Prokaryotes have a nucleus.

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F: They lack a nucleus; the chromosome is in the nucleotide, a region with no membrane

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39
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Prokaryotes have smaller rings of independently replicating DNA called _______.

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Plasmids

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40
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How do prokaryotes reproduce quickly?

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By binary fission

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41
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What are the three key features of prokaryote biology?

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They are small, they reproduce by binary fission, and they have short generation times

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What are the three factors that contribute to the high levels of genetic diversity observed in prokaryote populations?

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Rapid reproduction, mutation, and genetic recombination

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43
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How do mutations accumulate rapidly?

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Short generation times and large populations

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44
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The combining of DNA from two sources; contributes to prokaryotic diversity

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Genetic recombination

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45
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What are the three ways that DNA from different individuals can be combined?

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Transformation, transduction, and conjugation

46
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Movement of genes between individual prokaryotes of different species

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Horizontal gene transfer

47
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Prokaryotic cells incorporate foreign DNA taken up from their surroundings

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Tranformation

48
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Phages (“bacteriophages”) carry prokaryotic genes from one host cell to another

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Transduction

49
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Generally an unintended result of the phage replicative cycle

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Transduction

50
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Process through which DNA is transferred between two prokaryotic cells

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Conjugation

51
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What direction is DNA transfer in bacteria?

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Always one way

52
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What piece of DNA is required for the production of pili?

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F (fertility) factor

53
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Cells that contain _ _____ (F+ cells) function as DNA donors

54
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Cells lacking the F factor (F- cells) are _________

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Recipients

55
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An ___ cell can convert an ___ cell to an ___ cell if it transfers F plasmids to the ___ cell.

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F+, F-, F+, F-

56
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Antibiotics kill more bacteria except those with ________

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R plasmids

57
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Obtain energy from light

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Phototrophs

58
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Obtain energy from chemicals

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Chemotrophs

59
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Require CO2 or related compounds as a carbon source

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Autotrophs

60
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Require an organic nutrient to make other organic compounds

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Heterotrophs

61
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Energy and carbon sources are combined to give 4 major modes of nutrition:

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Photoautotroph, chemoautotroph, photoheterotroph, and chemoheterotroph

62
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Plants, algae, Cyanobacteria

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Photoautotroph

63
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Sulfolobus

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Chemoautotroph

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Aquatic and salt-loving prokaryotes (Rhodobacter, Chloroflexus)

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Photohetertropoh

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Many prokaryotes, protists, fungi, animals, some plants

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Chemoheterotroph

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Require O2 for cellular respiration

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Obligate aerobes

67
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Poisoned by O2 and live by fermentation or use substances other than O2 for anaerobic respiration

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Obligate anaerobes

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Can use O2 if it is present or carry out fermentation or anaerobic respiration if not

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Facultative anaerobes

69
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What is essential for the production of amino acids and nucleic acids in all organisms?

70
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What process do prokaryotes convert atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3)?

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Nitrogen fixation

71
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Cells of what prokaryote are specialized for nitrogen fixation or photosynthesis?

72
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Nitrogen fixation is isolated in what cells that prevent oxygen penetration?

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Heterocysts

73
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Cells of one or more prokaryote species cooperate to form surface-coating colonies called _______

74
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What causes tooth decay?

75
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How many known species are there of bacteria?

76
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Photoautotrophs, chemoautotrophs, and heterotrophs are what kinds of bacteria?

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Proteobacteria and Gram-negative

77
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes

78
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Vibrio cholerae causes

79
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Helicobacter pylori causes

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stomach ulcers

80
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All species parasitize animal cells and have gram-negative wall lacking peptidoglycan

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Chlamydias

81
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Chlamydia trachomatis causes

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nongonococcal urethritis

82
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Gram-negative heterotrophs that spiral through the environment by rotating internal filaments.

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Spirochetes

83
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Treponema pallidum causes

84
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Borrelia burgdorferi causes

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Lyme disease

85
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What kind of bacteria are gram-negative photoautotrophs

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Cyanobacteria

86
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Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus anthracis, and Clostridium botulinum are what kind of bacteria?

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Gram-positive

87
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Share certain traits with bacteria and other traits with eukaryotes

88
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Archaea that live in extreme environments, uninhabitable for most organisms

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Extremophiles

89
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Tolerate or require highly saline environments

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Extreme halophiles

90
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Have adaptations that make their DNA and proteins stable at high temperatures (even above 100C)

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Extreme thermophiles

91
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Obligate anaerobes that produce methane as a by-product of their metabolism

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Methanogens

92
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What kind of archaea are found in kilometers of ice in Greenland, swamps and marshes, and guts of cattle, termites and other herbivores?

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Methanogens

93
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The clade the includes many of the extreme halophiles, most methanogens, and some extreme thermophiles

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Euryarchaeota

94
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A supergroup composed of remaining closely-related clades of archaea

95
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What group of TACK includes most extreme thermophiles?

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C; Crenarchaeota

96
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Sister group of the eukaryotes

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Lokiarchaeotes

97
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Play a major role in the recycling of chemical elements between the living and non living component of the environment

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Prokaryotes

98
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Ecological relationship in which two species live in close contact: a larger host with a smaller symbiont

99
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Both symbiotic organisms benefit

100
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One organism benefits while neither harming nor helping the other

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Commensalism

101
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An organism called a parasite harms but does not usually kill its host

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Parasitism

102
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The name given to parasite that cause disease

103
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What causes about half of all human disease

104
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Proteins secreted by bacteria that can cause disease even if the bacteria are no longer present

105
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Lipopolysaccharide components of the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria

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Endotoxins

106
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Vibrio cholerae

107
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Salmonella

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Endotoxins

108
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Effective against multidrug-resistant gram-positive pathogens

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Malacidins

109
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Which system helps prokaryotes defend against viral attack and has been developed as a gene altering tool

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CRISPR-Cas 9

110
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The use of organisms to remove pollutants from soil, air or water

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Bioremediation

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