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35 Cards in this Set
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List some Low G+C G+ bacteria
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-Bacillus
-Listeria -Lactobacillus -Streptococcus-Enterococcus -Staphylococcus |
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List some info on the genus Bacillus.
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-Gram-positive
-Anerobic or facultative -endospore forming |
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List some HIGH G+C G+ bacteria
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-Corynebacterium
-Mycobacterium (mycolic acid producer) -Actinomycetes |
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List some information about Corynebacterium
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-Pleomorphic aerobes/facultative anaerobes
-snapping division |
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List some information about Mycobacterium
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-Aerobic Rods (may form filaments
-Slow growing partly due to waxy mycolic acid -includes species causing tuberculosis and leprosy |
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List some information about Actinomycetes.
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-Produces spores from branching fiaments resembling fungi
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What is the largest and most diverse group of bacteria?
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-Proteobacteria G-
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List some information about Proteobacteria.
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-largest and most diverse group of bacteria
-May have extensions called prosthecae -five classes (alpha-gamma) |
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What is the function of prosthecae?
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-used for attachment
-to increase surface area for nutrient absorption -only found in G- Proteobacteria |
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List some Alpha Proteobacteria
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--Nitrogen fixers include
-Azospirillum -Rhizobium --Nitrifying bacteria include -Nitrobacter |
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List some Alphaproteobacteria
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-Rickettsia (typhus and Rockey Mtn Spotted fever)
-Brucella -Caluobacter |
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list some betaproteobacteria
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-Nisseria (gonorrea, meningitis)
-Bordetella (pertussis) -Burkholderia |
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Where does R. rickettsii reproduce
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-inside a host cell, hiding it self from the imune system
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what unique structure do caulobacter form.
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-Rosette- connection into a floral apperance by using the prostheca
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List some Gammaproteobacteria
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-Legionella
-Coxiella -E. coli -Pheudomonas |
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List some Deltaproteobacteria
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-Bdellovibrio
-Myxobacteria |
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List some Epsilonproteobacteria
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-Campylobacter
-Helicobacter (uncers) |
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What Diseases can Chlamydia cause
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-Neonatal blindness
-pneumonia -STD INFO- a COCCI bacteria |
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What distease does Treponema cause
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-Sypnilis
INFO a Spirochete |
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What disease does Borrelia cause
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-Lyme disease
INFO a Spirochete |
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List two bacteroides
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-Bacteroides (inhibits digestive track)
-Cytophaga (degradeds wood and raw wood) |
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Things to know about Rhizobium
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-Nitrogen Fixer
-ALPHAprotobacteria |
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Things to know about Rickettsia
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-Intracellular pathogen
-causes typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever -ALPHAprotobacteria |
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Things to know about Brucela
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-Coccobacillus
-Causes Brucellosis -ALPHAprotobacteria |
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Things to know about Caulobacter
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-A prosthecate bacterium
-ALPHAprotobacteria |
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Things to know about Agrobacterium
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-Causes galls in plants; vector for gene transfer in plants
-ALPHAprotobacteria |
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Things to know about Neisseria
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-a Diplococcus
-Causes gonorrhea and meningitis -BETAproteobacteria |
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Things to know about E. coli
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-gram neg rod
-harmless strains live in gut of warm bloded animals -certain strains cause food posining |
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Things to know about pseudomonas
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-aerobe that catabolizes carbohydrates via E-D and pentose phosphate pathways
-causes UTI's and External otitis |
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Thinkgs to now about Bdellovibrio
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Pathogen of G- bacteria
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Things to know about Myxobacteria
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Reproduces by forming differenitated fruiting bodies
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Things to know about Chlamydia
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Intracellular pathogen; lacks peptidoglycan
-causes neanatal blindness and lymphogranuloma venereum |
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things to know about Treponema
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-is motile by axial filaments
-causes Syphilis |
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things to know about Borrelia
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-is motile by axial filaments
-Causes Lyme disease |
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Things to now about Bacteroides
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-Anaerobe that lives in animal colons
-Causes abdominal infections. |
