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Bacteria |
Often maligned as the causes of human and animals disease |
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Actinomycetes |
Produce antibiotics |
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Bacteria |
Live symbiotically in our body |
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Bacteria |
Helps in converting nitrogen into usable form |
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Bacteria |
Put the tang in yoghurt ang sourdough bread |
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Bacteria are in immense importance because of their? |
Extreme flexibility, capacity for rapid growth and production |
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Heterotrophs |
Organisms that cannot make their own food through carbon fixation |
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Saprobes |
Organisms that derives its nourishment from nonliving or decaying organic matter |
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Nitrogen decomposers |
Bacteria in the soil that break down nitrates and return nitrogen into the atmosphere |
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Phototrophic/photosynthetic autotrophs |
Capture enery from sunlight and produce their own food (green plants) |
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Chemotrophic/chemosynthetic autotrophs |
Obtain energy from inorganic molecules like hydrogen sulfide, nitrates, sulfur and iron |
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Phototrophic heterotrophs |
photosynthetic-also used organic compounds for nutrition |
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Chemotrophic heterotrophs |
Obtain energy by taking organic molecules and then breaking them down and absorbing them |
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Peptidoglycan |
A polymer consisting of sugars and amino acids |
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Peptidoglycan |
Transfers an mesh-like layer outside the plasma membrane of most bacteria, forming cell wall |
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PlasmidFlagellaCapsule |
Bacterial structures that are sometimes present |
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ChromosomeRibosomeCell wallCytoplasmCell membrane |
Bacterial structure that always present |
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Binary fissionBacteria conjungation |
2 types of bacteria reproduction |
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Archae |
Means early or primitive |
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Kingdom archaebacteria |
Thought tobbe 3.5 billion years ago by rock and fossil fuels |
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Kingdom archaebacteria |
Able to live in extreme conditions |
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Kingdom archaebacteria |
Also called extremophiles |
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Kingdom archae bacteria |
More similar to eukaryathan eubacteria |
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MethanogensHalophilesThermoacidophiles |
Subgroups of kingdom archaebac. |
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Methanogens |
Organisms that produce methane as a metabolic by product in hypoxix conditions |
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Methanogens |
Lives in swamps and marches |
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Methanogens |
Killed by O2 |
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March gas |
Reduce CO2 using H2 and release methane in swamps and marches that is called? |
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MethanobacteriumMethanococcusMethanospirillum |
Examples of methanogens |
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Halophiles |
Like extremely saline environments |
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Halophiles |
Survive with high salts concentration like great salt lake and dead sea |
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Halophiles |
Can survive ten times more salt concentration preent in sea |
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Halophiles |
Comes from the greek word "hals" means salt and "phile" means love |
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Bacteriohodopsin |
Red or orange pigment |
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Halorubin |
Also called bacteriohodopsin |
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Halobacterium Halococcus |
Examples of halophiles |
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Thermoacidophiles |
Organisms that lives in harsh and acidic environment |
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90°C and pH of 2.0 |
Hot sulfur springs temp. And pH |
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Thermoproteus SulfotobusChaetomiumThermophile |
Examples of thermoacidophiles |
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Kingdom eubacteria |
The true bacteria |
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Phylum schizophyta |
Phylum where class rikettsia belongs |
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Class rickettsia |
Degenerate bacteria like organisms |
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Class rickettsia |
Live and multiply ontly in arthropods |
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Fleas, ticks, lice |
Arthropods class rickettsia live |
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Insect bites |
Disease can transmitted to humans by |
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Rickettsia prowazekii |
Smallest rickettsia |
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Body louse |
Rickettsia prowazeckii is transmited by |
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Rickettsia prowazekii |
Causes epidemic typhus |
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Rickettsia tsutsugamushi |
Largest rickettsia |
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Mites |
The largest rickettsia is transmitted by |
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Rickettsia tsutsugamushi |
Causes scrub typhus |
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Phylum actinobacteria |
They are in great economic importance to humans because agriculture and forest depend on their contribution to soil system |
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Phylum actinobacteria |
Behave much like fungi |
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Actinomycetales |
Long beleived to be fungi |
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Frankia |
Live symbiotically with the plants whose roots pervade with the soil fixing nitogen for the plants in exchange for access to some of their plants |
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Order actinomycetales |
Organisms called actinomyceter |
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Actinomycetes |
Red shaped bacteria that forms branched filaments |
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Actinomycetes |
Inhabitance of soilMostly are decomposers |
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Pathogenic |
Means can cause disease |
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
Causes koch's disease |
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Mycovacterium leprae |
Causes hansens disease |
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Axial filaments |
Are boundles of fabrils the rotation from the ends of the cell |
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Outer sheath |
The rotation of the filaments produces movement of the ____that propels the spirochaetes in spiral motion |
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Class spirochete |
Move in a snake line motion |
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Class spirochete |
Are found in soil and water and decaying plants |
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Class spirochete |
Saprophytic and pathogenic |
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Dementia |
Spirochates may also cause dementia |
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Salvarsan |
The first partially organic synthetic antimicrobial drug in medical history |
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Salvarsan |
Primarily used to cure syphilis |
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Treponema pallidum |
Spirochete of syphilis |
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Trepunema pertenue |
Causes yaws |
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Yaws disease |
A chronic infectious disease caused by a bacterium treponema pallidum pertenue |
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Yaws disease |
It affects skin, bones, cartilages, and joints |
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Borrelia recurrentis |
Causes relapsing fever |
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Leptospira interrogans |
Causes relapsing fever |
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Leptospirs interrogans |
Causes leptospiroses |
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Borrelia burgdorferi |
Causes lyme disease |
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Phylum cyanophyta |
They have membrane that contain chlorophyll and other chemical required to carry photosynthesis |
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Phylum cyanophyta |
Aquatic eubacteria |
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Phylum cyanophyta |
Thay have thick cell wall but do not have flagella |
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Phylum cyanophyta |
Known as blue green algae |
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Phylum cyanophyta |
Ancestors of the present day chloroplast |
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Phycocyanin |
Blue pigment |
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Chlorophyll |
Green pigment |
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Nostoc |
A genus of cyanobacteri |
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Nostoc |
Contain filaments embedded in a gelatinuos substance |
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Lactubacillus |
Present in milk and dairy products, and fermented foods |
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L.acidophilusL.reuteriL. Plantarum |
Predominant species of lactobacillus |
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Lactubacillus |
Known for their ability to utilize lactose |
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Probiotic |
Arenlive bacteria that can be found in other fermented foods |
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Escherichia coli |
Part of the normal microflora |
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E.coli |
These bacteria produce vitsmin A and biotin essential for a variety of cellular process |
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Rhizobia |
Are present in soil or form a symbiotic association with the root bodulez at leguminons party |
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Rhizobium etli,BrodyrhizobiumAzorhizobium |
Species of rhizobia |
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Micobacteria |
Found in water and food |
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Clostridium tetani |
It enters your body through a tube, and replicates there |
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Lockjaw |
The most frequent presenting symptoms which i due to spasm of the masseler muscles |
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Lockjaw |
When the jaw temains tightly closed together with the spasm of facial expression |
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Lockjaw |
The typical "risus sardonicus" |
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Bacillus anthracis |
Cause anthrax |
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Anthrax |
Caused by inhalation o B. Anthtacis endospores |
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SheepGoatsCattle |
Anthrax mainly occurs in |
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Oral-pharyngeal anthrax |
An unusual manifestation of human infection with B. Anthracis |