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BIO205 - CH11 - Prokaryotes - Bacteria & Archaea - Tortora - Rio Salado - AZ

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Proteobacteria include?   Most of the gram-negative, chemoheterotrophic bacteria - largest taxonomic group.  
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Phylogenic relationships based upon __.   rRNA studies  
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prosthecae   Unusual morphology - protrusions such as salks & buds.  
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Alphaprotobacteria include __.   agriculturally important bacteria capable of nitrogen-fixation in symbiosis with plants.  
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The prefix __ is found in nitro-fixing genera of bacteria.   azo - a=without & zo=life - nitrogen came to be associated with absense of life.  
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Protobacteria are gram-__.   negative  
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The phylum for a Pseudomonadales is a __.   proteobacteria (gamma)  
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Enterobacteriales (order) are __ protobacteria.   gamma  
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Escherichia & Salmonella (genera) bacteria are gamma__.   protobacteria - coli is one too.  
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Myxococcus (order) bacteria are __.   deltaproteobacteria  
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Name 3 gram-negative bacteria that are not proteobacteria.   Cyanobacteria (photoautotrophs), chlamydia (chemoheterotropic) & spirochetes (chemoheterotrophic).  
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What is the purpose of a stalk in certain bacteria?   Anchor organs & increase nutrient uptake - stalk increases surface-to-volume ratio of cell.  
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How do budding bacteria divide?   Not by binary fission - they resemble asexual reproduction - bud increases in size till it separates into a complete cell.  
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Agrobacterium do what?   Invade plants - form tumor like crown gall when it inserts a plasmid with DNA into plant DNA - scientists interested for genetic engineering.  
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75% of animal species carry which endosymbiont?   Wolbachia - hide as endosymbionts in cell of insect - bacteria is killed, host dies - can turn male into female in some insects.  
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Parthenogenesis   In some insects, amphibians & reptiles - a method of reproduction caused by the wolbachia bacteria inside the organisms.  
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How does a sheath help a bacteria?   Protective & aid in nutrient accumulation  
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Bordetella, Neisseria (gonorrhoea), & Burkholderia are __protobacteria.   beta  
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For what are fimbriae used?   Enables organisms like Neisseria gonorrhoeae to attach to mucous membrane - contributes to pathogenicity.  
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Neisseria gonorrheae   gonorrhea - gram-negative, bean-shaped cocus - diplococci due to fimbriae - faculative anaerobe - oxidase & catalase positive - ferments glucose.  
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Neisseria meningitidis   meningitis - gram-negative, bean-shaped coccus - diplococci, faculative anaerobe, oxidase & catalase positive - lactose negative.  
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa   Bad for burn units & UTI - gram-negative, beta-hemolytic, aerobic, oxidase & catalase positive - non-lactose-fermenting  
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Can cause UTI, sepsis, & meningitis   Pseudomonas - gram-negitive rods, gammaproteobacteria - glow in flourescent light.  
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Why are pseudomonas a problem in hospital?   Their nutritional diversity - grow on soaps, antiseptics (quats), antibiotic resistance due to porins - responsible for 1 in 10 nosocomical infections.  
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Causes conjunctivitis   Moraxella - gammaproteobacteria.  
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Escherichia coli   Gram-negative, beta-hemolysis, green-black with metallic sheen on EMB, lactose +, catalase +, oxidase - diarrhea & UTI.  
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Vibronales (order)   Vibrio cholerae - cholera - diarrhea - undercooked shellfish - gammaproteobacteria.  
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Salmonella (genus)   Almost all are pathogenic - 2400 serovars (species varieties) flagella are antigens - S. typhi (typhoid) & salmonellosis (foodborn disease) - gammaproteobacteria.  
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Salmonella typhi   "Typhi" is actually serotype - gram-negative rod, fac. anaerobe, lactose - , glucose +, oxidase -, Food poisioning & typhoid.  
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Serovars (serotype)   Subdivisions of species - i.e. Salmonella typhi is actually "Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium".  
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bivars (biotypes)   Further subdivisions of serovars - special biochemical or physiological properties.  
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Proteus - Phylum, Class & Order   Proteobacteria, gammaproteobacteria, Enterobacteriales.  
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Enterobacter are gammaproteobacteria that use __.   UTI & hospital-acquired infections.  
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X factor   Substances from the heme fraction of blood hemoglobin - Haemophilus species  
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V factor   NAD+ OR NADP+ - needed to culture Heamophilus.  
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Why are deltaproteobacteria distinctive?   Include predators on other bacteria & sulfer cycle.  
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Why do Bdellovibrio bacteria attack other bacteria?   To reproduce when the host cell lyses (deltaproteobacteria).  
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Myxococcus   Preys on other bacteria - deltaproteobacteria - gram-negative, fruiting body & spores.  
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Vibroid   Helical bacteria - motile by flagella - microaerophics.  
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What epsilonproteobacteria is known to cause stomach cancer and ulcers?   Helicobacterer pylori  
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What do gram-negative - nonproteobacteria have in common?   They are photosynthesizing bacteria (cyanobacteria, etc.)  
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heterocysis   Special cells in cyanobacteria that contain enzymes that fix nitrogen gas.  
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Which bacteria do scientists believe played an important part in development of life on earth?   Cyanobacteria - oxygenic photosynthetic - believed to have made oxygen possible.  
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How does photosynthesis of cyanobacteria differ from purple sulfur bacteria?   Photosynthetic bacteria like cyanobacteria produce oxygen, whle purple sulfer is anoxygenic in that it doesn't produce oxygen, but sulfer.  
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2 groups of gram-positive bacteria   High G+C ratios (Actinobacteria) & low G+C ratios (Firmicutes)  
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Firmicutes (phylum)   Low G+C gram-positive bacteria - Clostridium, bacillus, staphylococcus, streptococcus, lactobacillus, & mycoplasma.  
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Clostridium perfringens   From lab - low G+C (Firmicutes), gram +, rod, double zone of beta-hemolysis, anaerobic, catalse -, Causes gangrene.  
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Genus Clostridium   Rod-shaped, obligate anaerobes, contain endospores, C. tetani, C. botulinum, C. perfringes, C. difficile.  
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Haemophilus influenzae   Gram-neg. rod, catalase +, causes meningitis  
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What causes Clostridium to be problem in contamination of deep wound?   They are anaerobes.  
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What structure is made by both Clostridium and Bacillus?   endospores  
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Which bacteria has 25x as much DNA as human cell?   Epulopicium fishelsoni - lives inside Red Sea Surgeonfish - Low G+C gram-pos. bacteria (Firmicutes).  
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Bacillus anthracis   Lab - anthrax - gram +, rod, low G+C (firmicutes), non-hemolytic, catalase +, faculative anaerobe, forms chains.  
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Bacillales   Firmicutes (Low G+C) gram +, endospores, rods, common in soil - some rpoduce antibiotics.  
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Staphylococcus   Grape clusters, cocci, low G+C (firmicutes), gram +, faculative anaerobes, yellow.  
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Staphylococcus aureus   Lab - gram +, grape clusters, yellow, low G+C (firmicutes), beta-hemolysis, catalase +, oxidase +, ferments mannitol - enterotoxin causes vomiting - can be antibiotic resistant - abscesses.  
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Toxins in S. aureus help it to do what?   Invade the body or damage tissue.  
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Enterotoxin   From S. aureus - cuases vomiting & nausea - most common cause of food poisoning.  
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Staphylococcus epidermidis   Gram +, grape clusters, low G+C (firmicutes), fac. anaerobe, catalase +, no hemolysis, no change in agar color, VP+ - normally lives on skin & mucous membrane - when immune system weak.  
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Lactobacillales   Low G+C (firmicutes), gram +, lactic acid +, aerotolerant.  
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Lactobacillus used to make?   Pickles, yogurt, buttermilk - lactic acid fermenters - gram +, firmicutes.  
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Streptococcus   Gram +, firmicutes (low G+C), chains of cocci, destroy phagocytic cells that ingest them, digest CT of host - lyse fibrin - some are beta-hymolytic & some aren't.  
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Name some of the beta-hemolytic Streptococci   S. pyogenes, S. agalactiae.  
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Name some non-hemolytic Streptococci.   S. pneumoniae, S. mutans.  
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Alpha-hemolytic appears?   Colonies surrounded by greening which is partial distruction of RBCs.  
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Streptococcus pyogenes   Lab - gram +, cocci, chains, non-pigmented, beta-hemolysis, catalase -, causes strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever - M protein allows them to avoid phagocytosis.  
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Streptococcus pneumoniae   Lab - gram +, cocci, in pairs, alpha-hemolytic, catalase -, encapsulated, pneumococcal pneumonia, & meningitis  
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Enterococcus faecalis   Lab - gram +, cocci, chains/pairs/clusters, beta-hemolysis, catalase -, oxidase -, normal in intestines - can cause UTI - nosocomial infections - in wounds & cathaders.  
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What enzyme lyses RBCs in beta-hemolytic species?   hemolysin  
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Causes dental caries   Streptococcus mutans  
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Enterococcus found where?   Low oxygen places in body - GI tract, vagina, oral cavity, & stools.  
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Enterococcus   Gram +, low G+C (firmicutes), found in hospitals (nosocomial) - highly resistant to antibiotics - surgical wound infections.  
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Mycoplasmatales lack a __.   cell wall  
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Why don't filters work well on mycoplasmatales?   Tiny size & plasticity due to no cell wall - may be smallest self-replicating organism.  
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Loosing genetic material is called __.   degenerative evolution  
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Irregular morphology   pleomorphic  
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What are Actinobacteria?   High G+C, gram + bacteria like mycobacterium, corynebacterium & Nocardia - (actino=ray) - radiate, or starlike, form of growth - branching filaments.  
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Actinomycetes are Actinobacteria (high G+C) that resemble __ & reproduce how?   molds - by asexual spores  
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Mycobacterium   Tuberculosis & leprosy - Aerobic, non-endospore-forming rods, acid-fast, drug resistant, pathogenic due to cell wall (mycolic acids) - waxy & water resistant.  
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae   Lab - High G+C (Actinobacteria), straight, gram +, rod, like stacks of coins - diptheriae  
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Which Actinobacteria genus produces most of our commercial antibiotics?   Streptomyces - gram +, high G+C bacteria (Actinobacteria).  
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Filament forming is advantageous in what environment?   Soil  
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Nocardia   Actinobacteria (high G+C), gram +, aerobic, acid-fast, soil  
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Why are Actinomyces not classified as fungi?   They are prokaryotic.  
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Chlamydiae lack __ in their cell walls.   peptidoglycan  
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Besides lacking peptidoglycan in cell walls, what makes chlamydiae unique?   Their debelopmental cycle - elementary bodies, reticulate bodies, & intermediate bodies.  
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Elementary bodies of chlamydiae   infectious stage (small)  
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Reticulate bodies of chlamydiae   Reproduction in host cell  
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Intermediate bodies of chlamydiae   Stage from reticulate to elementary  
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Spirochetes move by?   Axial filaments (endoflagella) near pole of cell.  
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Name some diseases caused by spirochetes.   Gram + - syphilis & Lyme disease  
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Bacteroidetes   Gram +, high G+C (actinobacteria), anaerobic, intestinal tract & mouth - puncture wounds & peritonitis due to perforated bowel.  
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Fusobacteria   Gram +, high G+C (actinobacteria), anaerobic, pleomorphic, spindle-shaped - dental abcesses.  
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The Domain Archaea lack __.   peptidoglycan in cell walls  
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Gram of Archaea   Both + & - organisms.  
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