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Bacteria

Often maligned as the causes of human and animals disease

Actinomycetes

Produce antibiotics

Bacteria

Live symbiotically in our body

Bacteria

Helps in converting nitrogen into usable form

Bacteria

Put the tang in yoghurt ang sourdough bread

Bacteria are in immense importance because of their?

Extreme flexibility, capacity for rapid growth and production

Heterotrophs

Organisms that cannot make their own food through carbon fixation

Saprobes

Organisms that derives its nourishment from nonliving or decaying organic matter

Nitrogen decomposers

Bacteria in the soil that break down nitrates and return nitrogen into the atmosphere

Phototrophic/photosynthetic autotrophs

Capture enery from sunlight and produce their own food (green plants)

Chemotrophic/chemosynthetic autotrophs

Obtain energy from inorganic molecules like hydrogen sulfide, nitrates, sulfur and iron

Phototrophic heterotrophs

photosynthetic-also used organic compounds for nutrition

Chemotrophic heterotrophs

Obtain energy by taking organic molecules and then breaking them down and absorbing them

Peptidoglycan

A polymer consisting of sugars and amino acids

Peptidoglycan

Transfers an mesh-like layer outside the plasma membrane of most bacteria, forming cell wall

PlasmidFlagellaCapsule

Bacterial structures that are sometimes present

ChromosomeRibosomeCell wallCytoplasmCell membrane

Bacterial structure that always present

Binary fissionBacteria conjungation

2 types of bacteria reproduction

Archae

Means early or primitive

Kingdom archaebacteria

Thought tobbe 3.5 billion years ago by rock and fossil fuels

Kingdom archaebacteria

Able to live in extreme conditions

Kingdom archaebacteria

Also called extremophiles

Kingdom archae bacteria

More similar to eukaryathan eubacteria

MethanogensHalophilesThermoacidophiles

Subgroups of kingdom archaebac.

Methanogens

Organisms that produce methane as a metabolic by product in hypoxix conditions

Methanogens

Lives in swamps and marches

Methanogens

Killed by O2

March gas

Reduce CO2 using H2 and release methane in swamps and marches that is called?

MethanobacteriumMethanococcusMethanospirillum

Examples of methanogens

Halophiles

Like extremely saline environments

Halophiles

Survive with high salts concentration like great salt lake and dead sea

Halophiles

Can survive ten times more salt concentration preent in sea

Halophiles

Comes from the greek word "hals" means salt and "phile" means love

Bacteriohodopsin

Red or orange pigment

Halorubin

Also called bacteriohodopsin

Halobacterium


Halococcus

Examples of halophiles

Thermoacidophiles

Organisms that lives in harsh and acidic environment

90°C and pH of 2.0

Hot sulfur springs temp. And pH

Thermoproteus


SulfotobusChaetomiumThermophile

Examples of thermoacidophiles

Kingdom eubacteria

The true bacteria

Phylum schizophyta

Phylum where class rikettsia belongs

Class rickettsia

Degenerate bacteria like organisms

Class rickettsia

Live and multiply ontly in arthropods

Fleas, ticks, lice

Arthropods class rickettsia live

Insect bites

Disease can transmitted to humans by

Rickettsia prowazekii

Smallest rickettsia

Body louse

Rickettsia prowazeckii is transmited by

Rickettsia prowazekii

Causes epidemic typhus

Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

Largest rickettsia

Mites

The largest rickettsia is transmitted by

Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

Causes scrub typhus

Phylum actinobacteria

They are in great economic importance to humans because agriculture and forest depend on their contribution to soil system

Phylum actinobacteria

Behave much like fungi

Actinomycetales

Long beleived to be fungi

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

Order actinomycetales

Organisms called actinomyceter

Actinomycetes

Red shaped bacteria that forms branched filaments

Actinomycetes

Inhabitance of soilMostly are decomposers

Pathogenic

Means can cause disease

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Causes koch's disease

Mycovacterium leprae

Causes hansens disease

Axial filaments

Are boundles of fabrils the rotation from the ends of the cell

Outer sheath

The rotation of the filaments produces movement of the ____that propels the spirochaetes in spiral motion

Class spirochete

Move in a snake line motion

Class spirochete

Are found in soil and water and decaying plants

Class spirochete

Saprophytic and pathogenic

Dementia

Spirochates may also cause dementia

Salvarsan

The first partially organic synthetic antimicrobial drug in medical history

Salvarsan

Primarily used to cure syphilis

Treponema pallidum

Spirochete of syphilis

Trepunema pertenue

Causes yaws

Yaws disease

A chronic infectious disease caused by a bacterium treponema pallidum pertenue

Yaws disease

It affects skin, bones, cartilages, and joints

Borrelia recurrentis

Causes relapsing fever

Leptospira interrogans

Causes relapsing fever

Leptospirs interrogans

Causes leptospiroses

Borrelia burgdorferi

Causes lyme disease

Phylum cyanophyta

They have membrane that contain chlorophyll and other chemical required to carry photosynthesis

Phylum cyanophyta

Aquatic eubacteria

Phylum cyanophyta

Thay have thick cell wall but do not have flagella

Phylum cyanophyta

Known as blue green algae

Phylum cyanophyta

Ancestors of the present day chloroplast

Phycocyanin

Blue pigment

Chlorophyll

Green pigment

Nostoc

A genus of cyanobacteri

Nostoc

Contain filaments embedded in a gelatinuos substance

Lactubacillus

Present in milk and dairy products, and fermented foods

L.acidophilusL.reuteriL. Plantarum

Predominant species of lactobacillus

Lactubacillus

Known for their ability to utilize lactose

Probiotic

Arenlive bacteria that can be found in other fermented foods

Escherichia coli

Part of the normal microflora

E.coli

These bacteria produce vitsmin A and biotin essential for a variety of cellular process

Rhizobia

Are present in soil or form a symbiotic association with the root bodulez at leguminons party

Rhizobium etli,BrodyrhizobiumAzorhizobium

Species of rhizobia

Micobacteria

Found in water and food

Clostridium tetani

It enters your body through a tube, and replicates there

Lockjaw

The most frequent presenting symptoms which i due to spasm of the masseler muscles

Lockjaw

When the jaw temains tightly closed together with the spasm of facial expression

Lockjaw

The typical "risus sardonicus"

Bacillus anthracis

Cause anthrax

Anthrax

Caused by inhalation o B. Anthtacis endospores

SheepGoatsCattle

Anthrax mainly occurs in

Oral-pharyngeal anthrax

An unusual manifestation of human infection with B. Anthracis