Chapter 4- Microbial Diversity Flashcards
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Two ways to describe microbial diversity
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Phylogenetic and Functional diversity
2
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Fuctional diversity
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Microbes are grouped according to the activities they carry out
3
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Phylogenetic diversity
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Microbes are grouped into phyla based on their evolutionary relationship
4
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what is used to identify evolutionary relationship of microorganism
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16s ssu rRNA sequence
5
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Diversity of Bacteria
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Cyanobacteria proteobacteria Firmicutes tenericutes actinobacteria bacteriodietes chlamydiae and Planctomyces Hyperthermophillic bacteria Deinococcus- Thermus