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The most general and largest taxa for microbes is
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- phylum
- class
- order
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| The most specific (and smallest) taxa for microbes is |
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The genus is Streptococcus, and the discoverer, Paul, will name the species after himself. The name for this species will be:
- Firmicutes streptococcus pauli
- Streptococcus pauli
- Pauli streptococcus
- Streptococcus bacteria pauli
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| Biovars vary from one another |
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| Prokaryotes can be divided into what 2 domains? |
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| Prokaryotes are distinguished from eukaryotes by the absence of a __________ in the former |
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| Eukaryotes include everything from |
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| Humans to snails to seaweed but not bacteria |
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| Celeste has managed to classify her bacteria from domain through species, but she is concerned about the fact that some of her bacteria vary slightly, although not enough to knock htem out of the species. These variations were once called |
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| the name prokaryote means |
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| Microbes are divided into 7 taxa. Name them |
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| kingdom, phyllum, class, order, family, genus, species |
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| what are organisms called when they have small differences but are still in the same genus and species? |
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biovars - if they vary in biological properties
serovars - if they differ immunologically
strains - any type of variation |
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| 2 titled naming system for organisms that includes the organism's genus and species |
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| biological variants that exist between 1 or several genes in an organism |
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| What are the 5 kingdoms of classification, and who proposed this system? |
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Robert Whittaker proposed the 5-kingdom system:
Animalia
Plantae
Fungi
Monera (bacteria)
Protista |
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| What are the 2 domains of bacteria |
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| Name the 2 fundamentally different types of cells and their differences. |
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Prokaryotes (Bacteria and Archaea) have no nucleus
Eukaryotes (Eukarya) have a true nucleus |
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| biological variants that exist between 1 or several genes in an organism |
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| once thought to be blue-green algae, this form of bacteria uses sunlight to produce carbohydrates and fix nitrogen from the air, creating a bad tast and odor in drinking water supplies during summertime. Cyanobacteria perform a major role in the worldwide production of oxygen |
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| the highest level of nomenclature division |
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| a process of naming and classifying microbes |
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