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| Archaea: Sulfur Metabolizers |
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| Anaerobic, live at high temperatures, difficult to study and culture, Have G-C rich DNA and rever gyrase that supercoils DNA |
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| generate CH4 by metabolizing CO2, cannot live in oxygen, extreme temperatures, psychrophiles live in cold, produce methane in cows, AT rich DNA |
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| Grow in high salt concentrations, must have bacterioruberin (red pigment), have GC rich DNA, normal temperature range, |
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| Deep Branching Thermophiles |
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| Share similarities to archaea, can be Gram + or Gram -, some can perform photosynthesis, include Deinococcus |
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| Small photosynthetic rods, Have photosystems I and II, nitrogen fixation |
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| Chlamydia Trachmatis: elementary bodies similar to spores, infect cells through endocytosis, reticulate bodies reproduce inside cell, nonmotile cocci, most common bacterial venerial disease, can cause blindness in infants |
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