Lecture 4 Flashcards
what is artificial classification?
Uses easily recognizable characteristics, but does not show the relationship between those of the same grouping (such as a phonebook lists names but does not show familial relationships)
which scientist used artificial classification?
Lineas and Whittaker
What is natural classification?
Shows common ancestry (by looking at DNA)
which scientist used natural classification?
Wose
What did Lineas do?
seperated life into plants and animals
What did Wose do?
made 3 domains:
bacteria, archea, eukayea
Name the 4 divisions in Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 1st edition
Gracilicutes, firicutes, tenericutes, mendosicutes
what does gracilicutes mean?
thin skinned
do gracilicutes gram stain positive or negative? (1st edition)
negative
what does firmicutes mean?
thick skinned
do firmicutes gram stain positive or negative? (1st edition)
positive
what does tenericutes mean?
soft skinned
what does mendosicutes mean?
faulty skinned
do mendosicutes gram stain positive or negative? (1st edition)
both
What is the full name of E. coli?
escherichia coli
what causes a form of nosocomial pneumonia?
klebsiella pneumoniae
what does nosocomial mean?
infected in the hospital
what 2 things does neisseria cause?
a form of ghonneria and a form of meningitus
what does treponema cause?
syphilis
what causes lyme disease?
borrelia
what does borrelia cause?
lyme disease
what causes chlamydia?
trachomatis
What does trachomatis cause?
chlamydia
what does rickettsia cause?
rocky mountain fever
what causes rocky mountain fever?
rickettsia
name 3 things that the streptococci bacteria causes
boils, meningitus, pneumonia
what does bacillus cause?
anthrax
which bacteria causes anthrax?
bacillus
what causes tetnus?
clostridium
what does clostridium cause?
tetnus
what does mycobacterium cause?
tuberculosis