Prokaryotes Flashcards
Deinococci
Super resistant to radiation
Caulobacter
Aquatic dimorphic
Cell division produces
One stalked cell and one flagellated
Mycobacteria
Fruiting body spores
Pseudomonads
Soil ecosystem
Rickettsias
Obligate intracellular parasite
Bloodsucking arthropods
E coil
Flora of large intestine
Shigella
Nonmotile rods
Do not ferment lactose
Vibro cholerae
Motile curved rod
Single polar flagellum
Potent toxin - cholera exotoxin
Endospore forms
Clostridium
Bacillus
Actinomycetes
Mycelial prokaryotes
Make antibiotics
Mycoplasma
No murein
Clostridium
Flora of human skin gi tract
Strict anaerobes
Spore
Exotoxins
Bacillus
Spore
Reservoir
B burgdorferi
And
T pallidum
Periplasmic flagella
Helically coiled shape
T pallidum stages
Primary- multiplication
Sec- dissemination
Third- late
Latency- asymotomatic