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21 Cards in this Set
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Chemotroph
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Use chemicals as source of energy/nutrients
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Anaerobic Chemolithotrophs (3)
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-Require inorganic compounds as energy
-no oxygen -usu. ARCHEA |
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Aerobic Chemolithotrophs (2)
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-Sulphur-oxidizing bacteria
-Nutrifiers (bioremediation) |
Two kinds:
S-O N |
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Phototroph (2)
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-use light for energy
-need a source of electrons |
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Anaerobic chemoorganotroph (2)
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-require organic compounds as energy source
-no oxygen |
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Aerobic chemoorganotrophs (3)
Why are the important to us? |
-require oxygen (as last e- acceptor)
-require organic compounds -Microbes of medical importance --> our bodies are a good source for these |
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What bacteria are of medical importance?
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Aerobic Chemoorganotrophs
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Anoxygenic phototrophs (3)
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-no H2O for e-
-don't produce Oxygen -sulfur and non-sulfur req's |
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Oxygenic phototrophs (3)
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-water as source of e-
-cyanobacteria (may be 1st Oxygen producers -some fix nitrogen |
H2O
cya N |
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Facultative anaerobes (3 + ex.)
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-prefers aerobic conditions
-can grow in anaerobic conditions -include a lot of enterics ex. Staphylococcus aureus |
1&2 conditions
includes a lot of ? |
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Clostridium (4)
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-Gram + rods
-common inhabitant of soil -ferment lots of stuff -some ferment aminos in putrification |
gram ?
inhabit ? ferment ? Ferment in ? |
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Lactic Acid Bacteria (2)
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-gram + cocci/rods
-produce lactic acid |
gram ?
shape ? produce ? |
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Streptococcus (1 + 6ex.)
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-Lactic Acid Bacteria
-strep throat, -rheumatic fever, -wound infections, -toxic shock syndrome -pneumonia and -meningitis |
-type
ex. s t rh wou tss pn men |
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Enterobacteria (3)
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-Lactic acid bacteria
-normal inhabitant of GI tract -may cause UTI's |
group ?
inhabits ? causes ? |
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Lactobacillus (2)
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-important in food industry (dairy , etc.)
-controls pathogens in vaginal tract |
important where?
controls ? |
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Sulfur anoxygenic phototrophs (2)
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-green or purple
-strict requirements of sulfur or sulfur products |
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Nonsulfur anoxygenic phototrophs (2)
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-green or purple
-more flexible with energy source |
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example of
oxygenic phototrophs Why are they important? |
cyanobacteria
May be the 1st Oxygen producers |
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Pseudomonas (3)
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.Gram -
.common opportunistic pathogen (nosocomial diseases) .highly resistant |
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Mycobacterium (4 + 2ex.)
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.Gram +
.waxy walls, no peptidoglycan .very difficult to treat b/c unique walls .lives on dead/decaying matter M. leprae M. tuberculosis |
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wall treat lives ? 2 ex |
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Enterobacteriaceae
examples (4) characteristics (3) coliforms do what? |
.Gram - rods
.reside in intestinal tract .Coliforms ferment lactose ex. E. coli, Salmonella, Enterobacter, Protues |
gram ? kind?
resides? ferment ? examples |