Chapter 4- Microbial Diversity Flashcards

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Two ways to describe microbial diversity

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Phylogenetic and Functional diversity

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Fuctional diversity

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Microbes are grouped according to the activities they carry out

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Phylogenetic diversity

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Microbes are grouped into phyla based on their evolutionary relationship

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what is used to identify evolutionary relationship of microorganism

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16s ssu rRNA sequence

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Diversity of Bacteria

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Cyanobacteria
proteobacteria
Firmicutes
tenericutes
actinobacteria
bacteriodietes
chlamydiae and Planctomyces
Hyperthermophillic bacteria
Deinococcus- Thermus
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