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Part 4: Diversity of Bacteria Flashcards

1
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Cyanobacteria size

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Larger than bacteria

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Cyanobacteria forms

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Unicellular, filamentous, or branching filamentous

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What do some cyanobacteria form?

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Heterocysts

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Heterocysts are

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Specialized nitrogen fixing cells

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All cyanobacteria carry out

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Oxygenic photosynthesis

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Oxygenic photosynthesis

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Harvest energy from light and produce oxygen

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All cyanobacteria are

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Autotrophs

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Autotrophs

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Fix CO2 to build cell material

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9
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Where do cyanobacteria carry out photosynthesis?

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Thylakoids

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10
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What do cyanobacteria have that chloroplast don’t have?

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Cell walls

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11
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What do cells of cyanobacteria contain?

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Peptidoglycan

Gram negative cell wall type

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12
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Where do cyanobacteria reside in?

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Terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats

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13
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What organism has the lowest nutritional requirement?

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Cyanobacteria (primary producers)

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14
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Example of cyanobacteria

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Prochlorococcus

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15
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What is one of the most abundant organisms on Earth?

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Prochlorococcus

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16
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How much of prochlorococcus’s photosynthesis accounts for the world’s ocean?

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Half

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17
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What group does most of the commonly encountered bacteria fall into?

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Proteobacteria

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18
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Proteobacteria use what kind of metabolism?

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Chemolithotrophs
Chemoorganotrophs
Phototrophs
Facultative organisms that can switch from one metabolic lifestyle to another

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What are the well-studied groups of Proteobacteria?

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Alpha, Beta, Gamma

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20
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What group of proteobacteria is the strange group?

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Delta and Epsilon

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21
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What group of Proteobacteria only have one known species?

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Zetaproteobacteria

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Alphaproteobacteria include

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Pathogens and non-pathogens

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Alphaproteobacteria example of a non-pathogen

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Rhizobium leguminosarum

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What do Rhizobium leguminosarum form on legume plants?

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Root nodules

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What do Rhizobium leguminosarum do for legume plants?

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Fix nitrogen into a bioavailable form

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Alphaproteobacteria example of a pathogen

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Rickettsia rickettsii

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Rickettsia rickettsii is what kind of pathogen?

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Obligate intracellular

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28
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How does Rickettsia ricketsii travel?

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By insects through their bites

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29
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What do Rickettsia ricketsii cause?

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Rocky mountain spotted fever

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30
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What is the closest relative to eukaryotic mitochondria?

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Rickettsia

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31
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Betaproteobacteria example of non-pathogen

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Neisseria mucosa

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32
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Where do Neisseria mucosa reside?

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On mucous membranes

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33
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Betaproteobacteria example of pathogen

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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34
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What group of bacterium grows well in lab?

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Gammaproteobacteria

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35
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Example of Gammaproteobacteria

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Escherichia coli

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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36
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What kind of respiration does E. coli use?

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Facultative aerobe

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37
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What kind of flagella does E. coli have?

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Petrichous

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38
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What does E. coli ferment?

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Lactose to a mixture of acids and alcohols

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39
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Where do E. coli reside?

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Large intestine of warm-blooded animals

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40
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What kind of flagella does Pseudomonas aeruginosa have?

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Polar flagella

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41
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Does P. aeruginosa ferment sugars?

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No

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42
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What kind of pathogen is P. aeruginosa?

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Opportunistic pathogen - causes infections in immunocompromised patients

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43
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What kind of infection does P. aeruginosa cause in cystic fibrosis patients?

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Respiratory tract infections

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44
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Example of Deltaproteobacteria

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Myxococcus xanthus

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45
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What kind of motility does M. xanthus have?

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Gliding

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46
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How is M. xanthus a predator?

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Releases exoenzymes to lyse other bacteria for nutrients

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47
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What happens when M. xanthus is starved?

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Cells migrate together to form complex multicellular fruiting bodies?

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48
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Myxospores

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M. xanthus individual cells that differentiate for dispersal

49
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Firmicutes have what kind of cell walls

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Gram positive

50
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Firmicutes lack what nitrogenous bases?

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Guanine and cytosine

51
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Firmicutes include

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Both lactic acid bacteria and non-lactic acid bacteria

52
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Lactic acid bacteria fermentation produces

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Lactic acid as an end product

53
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Examples of lactic acid Firmicutes

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Lactobacillus delbrueckii

Streptococcus pyogenes

54
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Lactobacillus delbrueckii is used in

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Yogurt production

55
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Streptococcus pyogenes causes

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Strep throat, scarlet fever, and the flesh-eating disease

56
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Examples of non-lactic acid firmicutes

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Staphylococcus aureus

57
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What kind of respiration does S. aureus use?

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Facultative aerobe

58
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What kind of clusters does S. aureus form?

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Grape-like

59
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Where does S. aureus live?

60
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What is special about S. aureus?

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They are halotolerant - can be isolated using media with high NaCl like mannitol salt agar

61
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What is a frequent cause of nosocomial infections?

62
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Endospore forming Firmicutes include

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Bacillus and Clostridium

63
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Bacillus are what kind of endospore formers?

64
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Clostridum are what kind of endospore formers?

65
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Where are endospore formers usually found?

66
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What are most endospore formers?

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Non-phagocytic saprophytic soil organisms

67
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Bacillus subtilis are used as a model for

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Gram positive cell structure and genetics

Cell division and differentiation (into endospores)

68
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Where does C. botulinum live?

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Tiny anoxic pockets in soil

69
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What does C. botulinum secrete?

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A variety of exoenzymes to degrade plant material

70
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What does C. botulinum produce?

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Deadly neurotoxin which causes botulism

71
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Proper canning procedures must either

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Reach temp above 120C to destroy endospores

Include enough acid or sugar to prevent germination

72
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Tenericutes are known as

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The Mycoplasmas

73
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Mycoplasmas are related to

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Gram positives

74
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Mycoplasmas stain

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Gram negative because they don’t have a cell wall

75
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What shape are Mycoplasmas?

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Pleomorphic - variety

76
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Mycoplasma genitalium is the common cause of

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Urethritis and pelvic inflammatory disease

77
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M. genitalium was the first

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Free-living bacterium to have its genome sequenced

78
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Size of M. genitalium

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Very small - 500 kbp

79
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Actinobacteria are gram

80
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Actinobacterium have high amount of what nitrogenous baases?

A

Guanine and Cytosine

81
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Actinobacterium include

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Coryneform bacteria

Mycobacteria

82
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Corynebacterium produce

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An exotoxin that inhibits protein synthesis that cause tissue death in the respiratory tract - diptheria

83
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Mycobacteria cell wall

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Modified gram positive cell wall - layer of mycolic acids outside the peptidoglycan layer - makes them acid fast

84
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth

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~24 hr/gen

85
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M. tuberculosis take how long to grow on agar medium?

86
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Filamentous Actinobacteria

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Streptomyces

87
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Streptomyces form

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Branching hyphae and mycelia

88
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Hyphae produce

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Reproductive spores for dispersal - conidia

89
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Streptomyces use what kind of respiration

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Obligate aerobes

90
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Streptomyces live in

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Well aerated soils

91
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What gives soil its earthy smell?

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Geosmins produced by Streptomyces

92
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What do Streptomyces produce?

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Substances that kill or inhibit the growth of other microbes - antibiotics

93
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Streptomyces griseus produces

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Streptomycin - a broad spectrum protein synthesis inhibitor active against Gram negative bacteria

94
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Bacteroidetes

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Large, heterogenus phylum of Gram negative bacteria

95
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Bacterioidetes have what in common?

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Not much at all

96
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Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron uses what kind of respiration?

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Strict anaerobe

97
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B. thetaiotaomicron lives where?

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Large intestine of humans

98
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B. thetaiotaomicron produces

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Enzymes to degrade polysaccharides - greatly increasing the variety of plant polymers that can be digested by the human gut

99
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Chlamydiae have what kind of cell wall type?

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Gram negative that lacks peptidoglycan

100
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What kind of parasite is Chlamydiae?

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Obligate intracellular

101
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Life-cycle forms of Chlamydiae

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Elementary and reticulate body

102
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Elementary body

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Small dense cell, resists drying

Allows infection of new host cells

103
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Reticulate body

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Larger vegetative cells

Multiply inside an existing host but are not infective

104
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Chlamydia trachomatis causes what

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Trachoma - infection of eye that can cause scarring and blindness

105
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Planctomycetes are what kind of bacteria?

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Budding and appendaged

106
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What does Planctomycetes use their stalk for?

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Attachment

107
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Cell wall of Planctomyces lack

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Peptidoglycan

108
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What is unique about Planctomycetes cell?

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Some have membrane-bound compartments

109
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Gemmata obscuriglobus nucleoid

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Surrounded by a true-unit membrane

110
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What suggest that the last LUCA may have been a hyperthermophiles?

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Several deeply branching phyla

111
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Deinococcus-thermus species

A

Thermus aquaticus

Deinococcus radiodurans

112
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Thermus aquaticus metabolism

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Chemoorganoheterotroph

113
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Thermus aquaticus source of temperature stable enzymes

A

Taq DNA polymerase

114
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Taq DNA polymerase allows

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DNA synthesis reactions in the lab to be carried out quickly at high temperatures

115
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Taq DNA polymerase is an essential tool for

A

PCR (polymerase chain reaction)

116
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Deinococcus radiodurans is extremely resistant to?

117
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Deinococcus radiodurans have highly effective

A

DNA repair mechanisms

118
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Deinococcus radians form

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Pairs or tetrads in response to massive DNA damage

Can fuse nucleoids from two cells to facilitate repair

119
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Deinococcus radians cell wall type

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Gram negative but stain gram positive because of thick peptidoglycan

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