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Extremophiles | Require extreme conditions of temperature, pH, and or salinity to survive. |
Actinomycetes | Produces antibiotics |
Cyanobacteria | Vary greatly in shape, size and method of reproduction |
Mycobacterium | Tuberculosis, Meringitis,
"Acid-Fast" |
Corynebacterium | Diplitheria |
Nitrogen Fixer | Roots of plants where they make N2 available to plants as NH3 |
Rhizobium | Roots of leguminous plants such as peas, beeans, and clovers. Make ammonia available to the plant encouraging growth.
Ex. Burning Fuel |
Listeria | Contaminates dairy products and meat |
Rickettsia | Causes typhus and Rocky mountain spotted fever. |
Acetobacter & Gluconobacter | Are used to synthesize acetic acid (vinegar) |
Bacillus | Common in soil.
Ex. Antrax |
Norcadia | Lesions |
Streptococcus | Strep throat, scarlet fever and others.
Toxins that destroy muscles and fat tissue |
Mycoplasmas | Pneumonia
Urinary tract infections |
Clostridium | Tetanus
Botulism
Gangrene
Severe Diarrhea |
Staphyloccus | Bacteremia, food poisoning, and others
Inhabit Skin |
Purple Sulfur Bacteria | Deposit sulfur within their cells |
Green Sulfur Bacteria | Deposits the resultant sulfur outside their cells |
Pseudomonas | Causes disease such as urinary tract infections external otitis(swimmer's ear) and lung infections in cystic fibirosis |
Bordetella | Pertusis "whooping cough" |
Coxiella | Q Fever |
Legionella | Causes Legionnaires disease |
Deinococcus | Outer membrane similar to Gram negative, but cells stain purple like gram positive |
Neisseria | Diplococcus
Gonorrhea and meningitis |
Pyrodictium | Live in deep-sea hydrothermal vents are irregular disks with elongated protein tublules |
Methanogens | Largest group of archaea
Converts organic materials into methane gas |
Aquifex | Represents the earliest branch of bacteria |
Deep Branching Bacteria | Earliest bacteria on Earth
Appeared to branched off the "tree of life" |
Halophiles | Extreme saline habitats such as the Dead Sea.
Colonize and spoil such foods as salted fish, sausage |
Geogemma | Current record holder for surviving high temperature.
Can survive 2 hours at 130 degrees. |
Thermophiles | Do not function properly at temperatures lower than 45 C |
Nitrifying Bacteria | Those that derive electrons from the oxidation of nitrogenous compounds |
Archaea | Lack true peptidoglycan in their cell walls.
Not known to cause disesase |
Phototrophic Bacteria | Acquire energy by absorbing light with pigments. |
Burkholderia | Lung infection of cystic fibriosis patinents |
Lactobacillus | Produce yogurt, buttermilk, pickles, sauerkraut. |
Treponema | Syphillis |
Azosprillum | Releases chemicals that stimulate the plant to produce numerous hairs. |