Term
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Definition
Phylum
-growth at low levels of nutrients
-unusual morpology
-protrusions such as stalks or buds (prosthecae)
-inducing nitrogen fixation |
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Term
| Pelagibacter Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
-group of marine microbes
-has a genome of 1354 genes
-extremely small in size
-important role in the carbon cycle
-phylum alphaproteobacteria |
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Term
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Definition
-a soil bacterium that grows in close association with the roots of many plants
and in return fixes nitrogen from the atomosphere. |
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Term
| Acetobacter & Gluconobacter Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
| are industrially important aerobic organisms that convert ethanol into acetic acid (vinegar) |
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Term
| Rickettsia Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
obligate intracellular parasites
gram negative
rod shaped or coccobacilli
transmitted by insect bites
enter host through phagocytosis
reproduction binary fission
spotted fever, typhus |
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Term
| Ehrlichia Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
gram negative
live obligately within white blood cells
transmitted by ticks
cause ehrlichiosis |
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Term
| Caulobacter and Hyphomicrobium Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
low nutrient aquatic
stalks that anchor them to surfaces
increasing nutrient uptake
buds increase in size to produce more nutrients for the plant |
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Term
| Rhizobium Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
agriculturally important
infect roots of leguminous plants
resulting in nodules around the roots which results in symbiotic nitrogen fixation |
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Term
| Bartonella Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
gram negative
causes cat scratch disease
human pathogens |
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Term
| Brucella Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
small nonmotile coccobacilli
obligate parasites
cause the disease brucellosis |
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Term
| Nitrobacter and Nitrosomonas |
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Definition
nitrifying bacteria that are of great importance to the environment
chemoautotrophs (capable of using inorganic chemicals as energy and carbon dioxide |
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Term
| Wolbachia Alphaproteobacteria |
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Definition
most common infectious bacterial genus
live inside the cells of their hots |
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Term
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Definition
| overlap between beta and alpha |
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Term
| Thiobacillus Betaproteobacteria |
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Definition
sulfur-oxidizing bacteria
chemoautotrophic
obtain energy by oxidizing the reduced forms of sulfur such as hydrogen sulfide into sulfates |
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Term
| Spirrillum Betaproteobacteria |
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Definition
habitat fresh water
large & gram negative
polar flagella |
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Term
| Spaerotilus Betaproteobacteria |
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Definition
sheathed
fresh water & sewage
helps with sewage treatment |
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Term
| Burkholderia Betaproteobacteria |
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Definition
single polar flagellum or tuft of flagella
aerobic, gram neagtive rod
capable of degrading more than 100 different organic molecules. |
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Term
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Definition
Sulfur oxidizing
chemoautotrophic
obtain energy by oxidizing sulfur into SO42- |
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Term
| Bordetella betaproteobacteria |
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Definition
nonmotil aerobic
gram negative rod
causes pertussis or whooping cough |
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Term
| Neisseria betaproteobacteria |
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Definition
| inhabit the mucous membranes of mammals. causitive agent of gonorrhea |
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