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| Capture energy from sunlight, e.g. plants and algae |
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| Harness chemical energy stored in organic or inorganic molecules e.g. humans, animals, fungi, etc. |
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| Organisms that make their own carbon from inorganic sources e.g. plants |
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| Obtain carbon from organic compounds |
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| Contain carbon, as opposed to inorganic which don't |
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| Cocci, bacilli, and spirochete |
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| Tiny circles that stick together, in chains these are called streptococci, and clusters are staphylococci. |
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| Rode shaped, in pairs these are diplobacilli and chains are streptobacilli. |
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| Worm shaped / spiral shaped |
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| Determines what kind of antibiotics to prescribe |
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| Harmful and difficult to treat because of the thick cell wall (made of lipid molecules bonded to carbs) the antibiotics have a hard time getting inside e.g. e coli |
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| Thinner cell wall, easier for antibiotics to get inside, made of sugar polymers |
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| Flagella (very long, helps cell move towards food or away from something toxic) and fimbriae (help cell attach to the surface of something) |
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| Binary fission (reproduce quickly), genetic variation (spontaneous mutation, rapid adaption, etc.), formation of resistant cells |
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| Allow bacteria to revert to a dormant state when conditions get bad, resistant cells |
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| Thrive in very hot temperatures, have special proteins so that they don't denature at high temperatures |
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| Inhabit extreme environments |
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| Give plant a better nutrient value by genetically modifying its genes/DNA |
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| Genetically modified bacteria |
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| Highest taxonomic rank, composed of Archae, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes |
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| Fungi, animals, plants, etc. One below domain on the hierarchy |
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| Live in oxygen lacking environments and give off methane as a waste product (type of archae) |
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| Gram-negative and share an rRNA sequence can use all 4 ways to get energy e.g. e coli |
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| Very diverse, e.g. streptomyces (in antibiotics) |
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| Only group with plant-like, oxygen generating photosynthesis, symbiotic relationships. e.g. anabaena with specialized nitrogen fixing cells |
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| Live inside eukaryotic host cells (bacteria) |
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| Helical bacteria, that move by rotating. Many are pathogens, e.g. treponema pallidum causes syphiis (bacteria) |
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| Part of the outer portion of gram-negative bacteria that are released when the cell dies or is digested |
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| Protein toxins that bacteria cells secrete to enhance their own survival |
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| Heliobacter Pylori Experiment |
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| Guy who swallowed a cocktail of pathogenic bacteria |
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| Aka the exchange of extrachromosomal DNA, which allows for genetic variation and rapid genetic adaption to the environment |
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