Microbes Flashcards

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Amoeba

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Rhizopoda
D.C: pseudopodia (false feet), very round nucleus

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Paramecium

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Cilliophora
D.C: canoe shaped

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Cilliophora

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Cilliophora
D.C: potato shape

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Giardia lamblia

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Archaezoa
D.C: debris, beaver fever, teardrop shape, two nuclei, flagella

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Plasmodium malariae

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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*

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Proper name format

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Capitalized genus, italics or underline species.

Genus species underlined

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: only yeast that buds*

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Aspergillus

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: conidia (spherical mass), conidiophore (stem), conidiospores (spores)

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Pennicillium

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: conidia (spherical mass), conidiophore (stem), conidiospores (spores), Hyphea (pieces of stem)

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Rhizopus

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
D.C: Sporangiophore (“stick”), sporangium (rounded structure on end), sporangiospores (spores), Hyphea (broken sporangiophores). Common bread mold

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Peziza

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Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: thallus (body of mold), asci (spore sacs, tubes), ascospores (spores, ‘pepperoni’)

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Coprinus

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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)

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Grams stain

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Purple= Gram positive

Pink/red=Gram negative

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: diplococci
Stain: Gram negative
D.C: causes gonorrhoeae

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Streptococcus pyogenes

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: streptococci
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: causes strep throat

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Staphylococcus aureas

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: staphylococci
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: causes MRSA

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Sarcina lutea or Sarcina flava or Kocuria flava

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: sarcina
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: have blue ring around pink interior

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Bacillus subtilis

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: Bacillus
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: small, slender, subtle

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Bacillus megaterium

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: endospores

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Escherichia coli

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: Gram negative
D.C: tiny, pink

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Bacillus megaterium (ss)

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: endospore stain
D.C: has endospores, endospore stain=safranin and green

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Rhodospirillum rubrum

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirilum
Stain: simple stain with safranin
D.C: has natural pigments in cytoplasm, photosynthetic*

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Spirillum itersonii

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirillum
Stain: simple stain with safranin
D.C: lipid inclusions, transparent ovals (look like white gaps)

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: pleomorphic
Stain: methylene blue
D.C: metachromatic granules- causes diphtheria

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Spirillum volutans

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirillum
Stain: flagella stain
D.C: flagella, two, one at each end

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Klebsiella pneumoniae

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Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: capsule stain
D.C: capsulem causes pneumonia