Monera Flashcards
Ancestors of Monera
Progenote
Most of the bacteria are
Heterotrophs
Archaebacteria are the ancestors of primitive organism known as
Living fossils
Archaebacteria that live in salty areas
Halophiles
Archaebacteria that live in Marshy areas
Methanogens
Who live in hot springs
Thermoacidophiles
Cell wall of RK bacteria is made up of
Carbohydrates or proteins or pseudomuriens
Pseudomuriens consists of
n acetyle glucose amine and n acetyle thallosomine uronic acid
Eu bacteria have the chlorophyll pigment
Chlorophyll A pigment
True bacteria that live in colonial form
Nostoc
True bacteria that live in filamentous form
Ocillatoria
Some of the bacteria algal blooms
Cyanobac … Polluting the water
Archae-Some bacteria can fix nitrogen in some specialized cells
Heterocyst
Chemo Synthesis bacteria recycling the nutrients
Nitrogen potassium iron sulphur
Heterotrophic bacteria majority of the organisms are
Decomposers
Filamentous actinomycetus
Mycelia bacteria
Filamentous actinomycetus
Mycelia bacteria
RK bacteria cell membrane lipid structure
Archaebacteria cell membrane structure lipids
Branch chain lipids
The term animalcules was given by
Anton von leenwenhoek
The term bacteria was coined by
Ehrenberg
Coccus bacteria that live in chains
Streptococcus
Bacteria that live in cubical form of 8
Sarcina
Some bacteria can change their shape
Pleomorphic bacteria example acetobactor
capsule is made up of
Polysaccharide and amino acid
Non capsulated bacteria are
Non virulent bacteria
Capsulated bacteria are
Virulent bacteria or pathogenic
Flagella is made up of
Flagellin protein
All bacteria are motile except
Coccus bacteria
Parts of flagella
filament
hook
basil body
Murien consists of
N acetyle glucose amine and N acetyl muramic acid
Urine or peptidoglycol is bonded with
Glycosidic bonds
PHB
Polybeta hydroxy butyrtic acid
Phb
Poly beta hydroxy butyric acid
Gram positive bacteria cell wall is made up of
Homogeneous…. mucopeptides
Gram negative bacteria cell wall is made up of
Heterogeneous…. Lipoprotein, mucoproteins, lipopolissaccharides
Examples of photo autotrophs
Chlorobium green sulphur bacteria… Chromatium purple green sulphur bacteria
Chemo autotrophs
Nitrosomonas … Nitrosococcus… Nitrobacter… Beggiota
Photo heterotrophs examples
Rhodospirilium… Rhodomicrobium
Transformation bacteria example
Streptococcus pneumonia
Conjugation bacteria example
Escherichia coli…E coli bac
Transduction bacteria example
Salmonella typhi