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MICRO2
Prokaryotic Organisms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What domains make up proakryoties? | Archea and bacteria |
| What kind of chromosme is in prokaryoties and in what sort of membrane? | Circular chromosome not in a membrane |
| What are histones? Where would you find them? | Histones are protiens that wrap DNA, they aren't in prokaryotes |
| BETA PROTEOBACTERIA | BETA PROTEOBACTERIA |
| What is a beta protobact? | Nisseria |
| How does the nisseria get its food source? | Chemiotrophic |
| What is its shape? | cocci |
| What are the two types of Nisseria? | Meninngitus and ghannaria |
| What is the death rate in meningitus? | 50% death rate |
| What is ghannorea? | STD |
| What is a class of spriochettes? | Borrellia |
| What do borrellia cause? | Lyme disease |
| How is lyme disease transmitted? | Ticks or lice |
| What are closridiales? What class do they go under? | Endospore producing obligate anerobes; firmicutes |
| Where do they grow? | Canned food |
| What do they produce as endospores? | Mucous spores that are stable and hence hard to kill |
| What is bacillus? | Endospore producing rods that are hard to kill |
| What are important characteristics of actinobacteria? | High G and C, gram + |
| What do mycobacteriums cause? | They cause TB, lepracy |
| What do streptomyces cause? | Human suffering |
| EPSILON PROTEOBACTERIA | EPSIOLON |
| What are the two organisms of this group? | Heliobacter and campylobacter |
| How does campylobacter move around and what does it have a role with? | One polar flagellum. Role in GI |
| How does heliobacter move around and what does it have a role with? | Multiple flagellum with a role in stomach ulcers and cancers |