Microbes Flashcards
Amoeba
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Rhizopoda
D.C: pseudopodia (false feet), very round nucleus
Paramecium
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Cilliophora
D.C: canoe shaped
Cilliophora
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Cilliophora
D.C: potato shape
Giardia lamblia
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Archaezoa
D.C: debris, beaver fever, teardrop shape, two nuclei, flagella
Plasmodium malariae
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Apicomplexa
D.C: erythrocytes (pink, no nucleus, red blood cells) leukocytes (purple, white blood cells) Can only infect red blood cells*
Proper name format
Capitalized genus, italics or underline species.
Genus species underlined
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: only yeast that buds*
Aspergillus
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: conidia (spherical mass), conidiophore (stem), conidiospores (spores)
Pennicillium
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: conidia (spherical mass), conidiophore (stem), conidiospores (spores), Hyphea (pieces of stem)
Rhizopus
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
D.C: Sporangiophore (“stick”), sporangium (rounded structure on end), sporangiospores (spores), Hyphea (broken sporangiophores). Common bread mold
Peziza
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: thallus (body of mold), asci (spore sacs, tubes), ascospores (spores, ‘pepperoni’)
Coprinus
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
D.C: gills (spokes of the wheel), stripe (stalk), Basidia (bulbous, spore-bearing structures, along edge of gills), basidiospores (spores along outside)
Grams stain
Purple= Gram positive
Pink/red=Gram negative
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: diplococci
Stain: Gram negative
D.C: causes gonorrhoeae
Streptococcus pyogenes
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: streptococci
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: causes strep throat
Staphylococcus aureas
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: staphylococci
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: causes MRSA
Sarcina lutea or Sarcina flava or Kocuria flava
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: sarcina
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: have blue ring around pink interior
Bacillus subtilis
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: Bacillus
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: small, slender, subtle
Bacillus megaterium
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: endospores
Escherichia coli
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: Gram negative
D.C: tiny, pink
Bacillus megaterium (ss)
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: endospore stain
D.C: has endospores, endospore stain=safranin and green
Rhodospirillum rubrum
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirilum
Stain: simple stain with safranin
D.C: has natural pigments in cytoplasm, photosynthetic*
Spirillum itersonii
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirillum
Stain: simple stain with safranin
D.C: lipid inclusions, transparent ovals (look like white gaps)
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: pleomorphic
Stain: methylene blue
D.C: metachromatic granules- causes diphtheria
Spirillum volutans
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirillum
Stain: flagella stain
D.C: flagella, two, one at each end
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: capsule stain
D.C: capsulem causes pneumonia
