Micro Chapter 18 Flashcards

Front 1

What are 3 very common features found in bacteria when it comes to their central apparatus for gene expression?

Back 1

RNA polymerase

Ribosomal RNAs

Translation factors

Front 2

Explain a deep-branching thermophile bacteria.

Back 2

A bacteria that has diverged from the earliest ancestral archaea and eukaryotes

Front 3

What phylum of bacteria have the fastest doubling rate of all cells as well as high rates of mutations?

Back 3

Deep-branching thermophiles

Front 4

What are the most extreme bacterial of all the extreme thermophiles?

Back 4

Aquificae and Thermotogae

Front 5

This phylum of bacteria forms filamentous mats and are known as "Green nonsulfur bacteria."

Back 5

Chloroflexi

Front 6

What bacteria is known to resist large amounts of radiation?

Back 6

Deinococcus radiodurans

Front 7

This phylum of bacteria is the only oxygenic phototrophic prokaryote

Back 7

Cyanobacteria

Front 8

How do cyanobacteria maintain buoyancy?

Back 8

By gas vesicles

Front 9

Cyanobacteria use ________ to fix nitrogen

Back 9

Heterocysts

Front 10

Filamentous cyanobacteria can form spores called what?

A) endospores

B) heterospores

C) alkinetes

D) ascospores

Back 10

C) alkinetes

Front 11

What are the two main phylum gram (+) bacteria consist of?

Back 11

Firmicutes and Actinobacteria

Front 12

Gram (+) _______ shaped cells develope ________ when conditions become unfavorable.

A) coccus; endospores

B) bacillus; endospores

C) bacillus; heterocysts

D) coccus; heterocysts

Back 12

B) bacillus; endospores

Front 13

Lactic acid bacteria are called non-_______ forming bacteria

Back 13

Spore

Front 14

This firmicute is known for contaminating cheese and sauerkraut. When ingested, it uses actin to propel itself into neighboring cells

Back 14

Listeria monocytogenes

Front 15

Streptomyces and mycobacterium are in what phylum?

Back 15

Actinomycetes

Front 16

Mycobacterium is responsible for what infectious disease of the lungs?

Back 16

Tuberculosis

Front 17

What are the 5 major classes of proteobacteria?

Back 17

Alpha

Beta

Gamma

Delta

Epsilon

Front 18

Which proteobacteria methylotrophs?

Back 18

Alphaproteobacteria

Front 19

The STI gonorrhea is causes by which proteobacteria?

Back 19

Betaproteobacteria

Front 20

Which proteobacteria is a sulfur and iron phototroph?

Back 20

Gammaproteobacteria

Front 21

This deltaproteobacteria can disperse spores called myxospores

Back 21

Myxococcus xanthus

Front 22

This type of proteobacteria can reduce sulfate/sulfur

Back 22

Deltaproteobacteria

Front 23

This type of proteobacteria are microaerophillic helical pathogens

Back 23

Epsilonproteobacteria

Front 24

What are the 4 deep-branching gram (-) bacteria?

Back 24

Acidobacteria

Bacteriodetes

Chlorobi

Nitrospirae

Front 25

Where is spirochete's flagellum found?

Back 25

Internally

Front 26

This phylum of bacteria has two developmental stages (elementary body and reticulate body)

Back 26

Chlamydiae

Front 27

This phylum of bacteria has no cell wall but the nucleoid is located inside a double-membrane that resembles a nuclear membrane

Back 27

Planctomycetes

Front 28

These are called "Wrinkled microbes"

Back 28

Verrucomicrobia