microbiology ch 10 Flashcards
What is taxonomy?
The science of classifying organisms
What does taxonomy show?
Degree of similarity among organisms
What is systematics/phylogeny?
The study of the evolutionary history of organisms
This is the science of classifying organisms and shows the degrees of similarity among organisms
Taxonomy
This is the study of the evolutionary history of organisms
Systematics/phylogeny
Who developed the current three domain system of phylogeny?
Carl Woese
When did Carl Woese develop the three-domain system of phylogeny that is currently used?
1978
What are the three domains of organisms?
Eukarya, Bacteria, Archaea
What developed into organelles in the development of eukaryotes?
Endosymbiotic bacteria
What did eukaryotes originate from?
Infoldings of prokaryotic plasma membranes
Endosymbiotic bacteria developed into these in eukaryotes
Organelles
These originated from infoldings of prokaryotic plasma membranes
Eukaryotes
How are organisms grouped in phylogenetic trees?
According to common properties
What do mutations accumulated in genomes serve as?
Molecular clock
What does each species from from its ancestor?
Some characteristics
These group organisms according to common properties
Phylogenetic trees
These serve as a molecular clock
Mutations accumulated in genomes
What constitutes a eukaryotic species?
A group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves
What constitutes a prokaryotic species?
A population of cells with similar characteristics
What constitutes a viral species?
A population of viruses with similar characteristics that occupies a particular ecological niche
This type of species is made up of a group of closely related organisms that breed among themselves
Eukaryotic species
This type of species is made up of a population of cells with similar characteristics
Prokaryotic species
This type of species is a population of viruses with similar characteristics that occupies a particular ecological niche
Viral species
In prokaryote classification, what is a culture?
Bacteria grown in a laboratory media
In prokaryote classification, what is a clone?
Population of cells derived from a single parent cell
In prokaryote classification, what is a strain?
Genetically different cells within a clone
This is includes bacteria grown in laboratory media
Culture
This is a population of cells derived from a single parent cell
Clone
This is made up of genetically different cells within a clone
Strain
What is the makeup of Kingdom Protista?
Catch-all kingdom for a variety of autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms
How is Kingdom Protista grouped?
Into clades based on rRNA
What are four characteristics of Kingdom Fungi?
Chemoheterotrophic; unicellular or multicellular; chitin cell walls; develop from spores/hyphal fragments