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Microbial Diversity Flashcards

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Domain Archae

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  • Pseudo-peptidoglycan cell walls
  • Plasma membrane is a monolayer
  • Many live under extreme conditions
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Halobacterium

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  • Domain Archaea

- Halophile that lives in conditions of very high salt

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Thermoplasma

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  • Domain Archaea

- Lives in very hot conditions like the deep sea vent

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Phylum Proteobacteria

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  • Gram negative bacteria that are chemoheterotrophs
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Enterobacteriales

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  • Phylum Proteobacteria
  • Order
  • Straight rods; motile; facultative anaerobes
    E.g. Salmonella, Eschericia
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Salmonella

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Phylum Proteobacteria

Order: Enterobacteriales

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Eschericia

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Phylum Proteobacteria

Order: Enterobacteriales

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Streptococcus

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
- Indicator of fecal contamination

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Staphylococcus

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
- Indicator of fecal contamination

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Pseudomonas

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
- Indicator of fecal contamination

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Pseudomonales

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Phylum Proteobacteria

  • Order
  • Straight or slightly curved
  • Obligate aerobes (mostly)
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Pasteurellales

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Phylum Proteobacteria

  • Order
  • Non-motile
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Pasterurella

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order Pasterurellales
Ex: P.multocida

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Haemophilus

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order Pasterurellales
Ex: H. influenza

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Virbionales

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order
- Slightly curved & major cause of fish diseases
E.g. Vibrio cholerae & V. parahaemolyticus

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

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  • Capable of growth at low levels of nutrients

- Nitogen fixing bacteria and several human pathogens

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Rhizobium

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Class alpha- proteobacteria

  • Symbiotic with legumes
  • Fix nitrogen from atmosphere into ammonia
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Nitrosomonas

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Class alpha- proteobacteria

  • Found in soil
  • Converts ammonia to nitrites
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Nitrobacter

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • Found in soil
  • Converts nitrites to nitrates
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Agrobacterium

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • A. tumefasciens: causes plant tumors
  • Inserts DNA into plant chromosome during infection
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Rickettsia

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • Obligate cellular parasite
  • Transmitted between hosts of ticks or insects (ex. R. ricketsii)
  • Enter by phagocytosis
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R. ricketsii

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rocky mountain spotted fever

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Acetobacter

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

- converts ethanol into vinegar

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Wolbachia

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • most common infectious bacterial genus
  • Only infects invertebrates
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Class beta-proteobacteria

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Many use anaerobic breakdown products as nutrients

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Thiobacillus

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Class beta-proteobacteria

  • Aerobic assimilation of sulfur
  • Oxidize H2S
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Neisseria

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Class beta-proteobacteria

- Inhabit mucous membranes

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Zooglea

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Class beta-proteobacteria

- Aerobic breakdown of sewage in treatment. plants

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Bordetella

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Class beta-proteobacteria

- B. parapetussis: whooping cough

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Class delta-proteobacteria

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Predatory on other bacteria

  • sulfur cycle
  • mostly microaerophilic
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Campylobacter

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Class delta-proteobacteria
Ex: C.fetus: spontaneous abortions in cattle and sheep
C. jejuni: poultry-borne source of intestinal traumas in humans

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Helicobacter pylori

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Class delta-proteobacteria

- Peptic and duodenal ulcers

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Phylum Firmicutes

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  • Gram positives

- Bacillus, Staphylococcus, Listeria

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Bacillus

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  • Aerobic or facultative anaerobic
  • Form endospores
  • Common cause of milk spoilage
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B. anthracis

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Phylum Firmicutes
Class Bacillus
- anthrax
- soil contamination

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B. thuringiensis

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Phylum Firmicutes
Class Bacillus
- produces a protein crystal next to endospore
- intestinal pH activates protein

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B. cereus

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Phylum Firmicutes
Class Bacillus
- important agent in food poisoning in starch foods

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Staphylococcus

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Phylum Firmicutes
- irregular clusters of cocci
- facultative anaerobes
E.g. S.aureus

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Listeria

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Phylum Firmicutes
- problem in food processing
E.g. L. monocytogenes

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Lactobacillus

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Class Lactobacillales

  • Anaerobic aerotolerants
  • produce lactic acid during fermentation
  • considered a probiotic
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Streptococcus

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Phylum Firmicutes

  • chain arrangement of cocci
  • facultative anaerobes
  • hemolysis common
    (Group A beta: S.pyogenes; strep throat, scarlet fever)
    (Group B Beta: S. agalactiae; cause of teat mastitis in cows)
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S. pneumoniae

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Streptococcus

  • non hemolytic
  • bacterial pneumonia and meningitis
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S. lactis

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Streptococcus

- production of cheese

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Class Clostridiales

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Phylum FIrmicutes

- Clostridium: strict anaerobes, form endospores

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Class Mycoplasmatales

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Phylum Firmicutes

  • mycoplasma
  • lack any cell wall
  • generallt facultative anaerobes
  • veterinary diseases
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Mycoplasma hypophenumonia

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Phylum Firmicutes
Class Mycoplasmatales
- pneumonia in swine

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M. gallisepticum

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Phylum Firmicutes
Class Mycoplasmatales
- respiratory disease in chickens

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Phylum Cyanobacteria

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  • photoautotrophic
  • have a series of internal membranes
  • live in moist areas
  • many can fix nitrogen
    E.g. Anabena & Prochlorococcus
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Phylum Actinobacteria

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Gram positives with high G+C content in DNA

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Mycobacterium

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Phylum Actinobacteria

- cell wall similar to gram-negative

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Corynebacterium

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Phylum Actinobacteria
- Pleomorphic
E.g. C. diphtheriae

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Streptomyces

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Phylum Actinobacteria

  • very common in soil
  • reproductive asexual spores
  • many antibiotics come form this
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Phylum Chlamydiae

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  • Chlamydia
  • remains in cell vacuole
    e. g. C. trachomatis; sexually transmitted urinary infection
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Phylum Spirochaetes

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  • wide array of environments

E.g. Treponema pallidum & Borrelia burgdorferi

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Treponema pallidum

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Phylum Spirochaetes

- cause of syphillus

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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Phylum Spirochaetes

- cause of lyme disease

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Phylum Bacteroidetes

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  • Bacteroides
  • extremelt abundant in human intestinal tract
  • anaerobic
    E.g. B. succinogenes & B. ruminicola

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