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Michaelmas Term 1 > The Social Microbe > Flashcards

The Social Microbe Flashcards

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What is LUCA?

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An inferred cellular organism

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Where does the inference for LUCA arise from?

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The shared fundamental biochemical and genetic characteristics of all known life

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LUCA hypotheses

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  • anaerobic
  • CO2-fixing
  • H2-dependent
  • N2-fixing
  • thermophilic
  • dependent on transition metals
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What setting are the LUCA hypotheses consistent with?

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Hydrothermal

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What are the competing hypothesis for the origin of life location:

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  • surface origin hypothesis
  • subsurface origin hypothesis
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Madigan model for the origin of cellular life

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  • RNA World
  • DNA becomes genetic repository; RNA adopts a more transitory role in genetic inheritance
  • three part system (DNA, RNA, protein) evolve and become universal amoung cells
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What is the RNA World theory?

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That the first self-replicating systems must have been RNA-based

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What would make RNA a good first self-replicator?

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  • can bind small molecules (ATP, other nucleotides)
  • catalytic activity (autocatalysis?)
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Describe the world in which life arose

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  • hot
  • anoxic
  • inorganic
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How did the origin of life change the earth?

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  • organic chemical synthesis
  • CO2 fixation
  • oxygenic photosynthesis
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What did oxygenic photosynthesis facilitate?

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  • O2-based respiration
  • much more energy available
  • evolution of super-energy expensive lifestyles (large, multicellular)
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Describe the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

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~2.7GYA cyanobacteria evolved a photosystem using H2O rather than H2S

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How can we measure O2?

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  • it reacts spontaneously with oceanic iron minerals
  • abundant iron oxides visible in geological record (banded iron formations)
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What did O2 accumulation in the atmosphere result in?

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  • formation of the ozone shield
  • toxic oxygen radicals
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Describe the endosymbiosis eukaryogenesis theory

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mitochondrion of present-day eukaryotes arose from the stable incorporation of an aerobic bacteria into early eukaryotic cells

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What did endosymbiosis allow?

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increased early cell’s respiratory capacity, allowing early mitochondria-containing cells with o becomes the ancestors of all extant Euakarya

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Describe chloroplast endosymbiosis

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  • stable incorporation of a Cyanobacterium-like cell into the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic lineage
  • plant evolution
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What is common between prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to size and shape

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  • smaller
  • similar in size and shape
  • generally lack membrane bound organelles
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What is common between prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to ribosomes

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  • smallest
  • 60S-75S
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What is common between prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to the initiation of protein synthesis

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  • initiation amino is N-formyl-methionine (not methionine)
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What is common between prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to chromosome

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Mostly circular, not linear

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What is common between prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to rifampicin action

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Inhibits RNA polymerase (does not in eukaryotes)

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Rifampicin

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Ah inhibitor of RNA polymerase

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What is common between prokaryotes, mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to chloramphenicol

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Inhibits protein synthesis (doesn’t in eukaryotes)

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Chloramphenicol

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Protein synthesis inhibitor

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What about mitochondria and chloroplast are consistent with the endosymbiotic hypothesis

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Their physiology, metabolism and genome structure

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Compare and contrast mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to their function

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Mitochondrion: oxidative phosphorylation, beta oxidation and photorespiration
Chloroplast: photosynthesis and photorespiration

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Compare and contrast mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to their metabolism

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Mitochondria: break down glucose to CO2 and H2O, consumes oxygen, generates ATP
Chloroplasts: synthesise glucose from CO2 and H2O, libérâtes oxygen

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Compare and contrast mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to their shape

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Mitochondria: oblong or bean shaped
Chloroplast: ellipsoid disc

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Compare and contrast mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to their structure

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Mitochondria: double membrane; inner membrane folded into cristae
Chloroplast: double membrane; inner membrane contains thylakoid stacks, grams

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Compare and contrast mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to their size

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Mitochondria: 0.75-3 micromètres
Chloroplasts: 0.5-10 micromètres x 2.5 micromètres

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Compare and contrast mitochondria and chloroplasts relative to their distribution

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Mitochondria: universal, most eukaryotes
Chloroplasts: restricted; plants, green algae, some unicellular eukaryotes

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Compare mitochondria and chloroplasts

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  • both have small circular genomes
  • both replicate independently of the rest of the cell
  • in both the outer membrane has proteins that enable permeability
  • in both the inner semi-permeable membrane is the site of metabolic activity
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Mitochondria late scenario

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  • Posits endosymbiosis uptake by phagocytosis
  • requires evolution of phagocytosis first
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Mitochondria early hydrogen hypothesis

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  • metabolic symbiosis of a methane producing bacterium
  • complex membrane structures and molecules and phagocytosis evolve after endosymbiosis
36
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Both mitochondria late and mitochondria early envisage

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  • extensive gene transfer from bacterium to host
  • system evolution is to transfer nuclear-encoded proteins to organelle
37
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Syntrophic communities

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  • cross-feeding
  • one species lives off of the products of another species
  • highly nutritional, interdependent communities of eubacteria and archaea
  • anoxic environments
38
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Describe gene exchange in syntrophic communities

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  • patterns
  • suggests community above independent evolution
39
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Relationship between mitochondria early hypothesis and syntrophy

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  • eukaryogenesis from bacterial and archaea syntrophic interactions
  • supported by chimeric eukaryotic genomes
40
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Examples of intracellular bacteria

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  1. Pleurocapsa spp
  2. Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
  3. Pseudococcidae
41
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Describe Pleurocapsa spp.

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Nitrogen-fixing, spore-forming marine cyanobacterium showing intracellular bacteria

42
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Describe Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus

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Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus infects Pseudomonas fluorescens periplasm

43
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Describe mealybug Pseudococcidae

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  • TEM shows bacteriome containing betaproteobacterial Trembleya endosymbionts
44
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Describe Trembleya symbionts

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Contain gammaproteobacterial Morganella endosymbionts

45
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What are Acanthamoeba?

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Ubiquitous, free-living amoebae

46
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Describe Acanthamoeba:

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  • important predators of microbial communities
  • ~25% contain obligate intracellular bacterial symbionts
47
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Which two endosymbionts are present in one Acanthamoeba?

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  • Candidatus procabacter
  • Candidatus parachlamydia
48
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Where are mitosomes found?

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In some unicellular anaerobic/micro aerophilic eukaryotes

49
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Give a genus in which mitosomes are found

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  • Giardia
  • parasitic diplomondad
50
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Describe mitosomes

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  • double membrane
  • lack DNA
  • reduced metabolic capacity (no ECT/TCA enzymes)
51
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What are hydrogenosomes?

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Energy-yielding mitochondria alternatives present in some anaerobic protists

52
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Give an example of a species containing hydrogenosomes

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  • Nyctotherus ovalis
  • ciliate
53
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Where are hydrogenosomes found?

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  • trichomonads
  • hypermastigotes
  • euglenids
54
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What are hydrogenosomes thought to have evolved from?

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Mitochondria

55
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Describe hydrogenosomes

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  • double membrane
  • DNA present (reduced due to gene loss)
56
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How do hydrogenosomes generate energy?

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  • Partial oxidation of pyruvate to acetate
  • pyruvate fermentation
57
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Give an example of a genus that exists without mitochondria

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Monocercomonoides

58
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Describe the amitochondrial status of Monocercomonoides

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  • Thought that they once had them, but we’re lost over time
  • evidence of LGT of bacterial sulfur mobilisation genes
59
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Give an example of primary endosymbiosis

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Uptake of a Cyanobacteria by a non-photosynthetic organism

60
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Give an example of secondary endosymbiosis

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Plastid-containing algae ingested by non-photosynthetic eukaryote

61
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Describe diatoms

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  • abundant microscopic algae
  • contribute ~20% to global photosynthesis
  • important in biogeochemical cycles
62
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What are diatoms predominantly associated with?

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  • proteobacteria
  • bacteriodetes
63
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How have bacteria contributed to diatom genomes?

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  • through HGT
  • recruitment of metabolic capacity
64
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What are the metabolic interactions of diatoms?

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  • parasitism
  • synergism
  • competition
65
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Describe the Asgard superphylum lineage

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Thought to be ancestral to, or sister group of, Eukarya

66
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All cellular life has a

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Common ancestor

67
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The first metabolic processes arose in an

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Oxygen-free, microbial world

68
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How did eukaryotes aquire during endosymbiosis?

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Nutritional versatility and oxygen-based metabolism

69
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What did gene exchange post-endosymbiosis result in

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Increasing interdependence

70
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OILRIG

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  • oxygen is the most oxidising agent
  • hydrogen is the most reducing agent
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Oxygen =

72
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H2O is a

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Much more efficient energy system than H2S

73
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Eukaryotes can

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Compartmentalise

74
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LGT occurs from

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Organelle to nucleus

75
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HGT occurs from

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Bacteria to eukaryote

76
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Diatomic carbons in the sea are not

77
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Most eukaryotes are still

78
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List some mitochondria-related entities

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  • mitosomes
  • hydrogenosomes

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