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Micro part 2
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Nursing
Graduate
02/07/2012
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A multualistic relationship between an algae and a fungus is called
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lichen
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Which type of bacteria grow at lowest/highest temperatures
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Psychrophils/hyperthermophilis
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One characteristic of a virus that is similiar to a living organism and one that is similar to nonliving things
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living- reproduce, DNA or RNA
nonliving- either DNA or RNA NOT both
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Prokaryotic organisms
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Archaea and Bacteria
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Micoorganism that uses photosynthesis
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Algae
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6 classes of microorganisms
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bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa, algae, viruses
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Growth phase when microbes grow most quickly
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exponential
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what generates the electrochemical gradient in electron transport
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protons
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which generates more energy
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aerobic respiration
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how much net ATP is generated form fermintation and from aerobic respiration in bacteria
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2, 38
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which is not an enzymes that breaks down oxygen free radicals
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oxidase
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a facilitative anaerobe
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one that uses fermintation in the absence of oxygen and respiration in the presense of oxygen
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what is not an organic growth factor
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phosphorous
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most extremeophiltes are found in which domain
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archaea
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the 3 domains
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bacteria, archea, euryara
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chemoorganotrophs
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organic compounds
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binominal nomenclature that gives organisms 2 names
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carolus linnaeus
Eschercia= genus
coli=species
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chemolithotrophs get energy from
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oxidizing inorganic chemcials
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all organisms can be replaced on a phylogenetic tree and seperated into 3 domains based on..what..
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ribosomal RNA gene sequencing
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Gram negative and gram positive cells differ in what structure
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cell wall
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what increases bacterial pathogenicity or ability to cause disease
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capsule
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coccus and bacillus
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shapes of bacteria
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purpose of koch's postulates
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shows microbes cause disease, looked at blood in diseased animals
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this person disapproved spontaneous generation once and for all
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louis pasteur (s-shaped flask)
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true or bacteria and viruses
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bacteria= possess RNA and DNA
viruses= have one or the other, not both
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cell walls composed of peptidoglycan
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bacteria
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both are eukaryotic microbes
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protoza and yeast
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