Microbial Impacts on the Biosphere

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  • Created on: 05-03-20 19:15
What are the 4 categories of Prokaryotes based upon method of obtaining energy and carbon?
Phototrophs, Chemotrophs, Autotrophs, Heterotrophs
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How do Heterotrophs obtain energy and carbon?
They require an organic nutrient to make organic compounds
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What are the 4 major modes of Nutrition?
Photoautotrophy, Chemoautotrophy, Photoheterotrophy, Chemoheterotrophy
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How do obligate anaerobes metabolise?
By Fermentation or anaerobic respiration
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How do Facultative anaerobes metabolise?
With or without oxygen
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What is Nitrogen used to produce?
Amino and Nucleic acids
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What is the most stable form of nitrogen?
N2 GAS
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What is Nitrogen fixation?
Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3)
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What is metabolic cooperation?
Cooperation between prokaryotes allowing the use of environmental resources they couldn't use as individuals
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What are Nitrogen fixing cells known as?
Heterocysts
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What are Biofilms?
Surface coating colonies
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What are the 4 reasons to use Ribosomal RNA as a marker for Phylogenetic analysis?
Universally distributed, Functionally constant, Highly conserved , Good length for inferring phylogeny
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What obscures the root of the tree of life?
Horizontal gene transfer between prokaryotes
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What are the 5 groups of Proteobacteria?
Alphae, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
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What are Chlamydias?
Bacteria that are parasites living within animal cells
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What is Cyanobacteria?
Photoautotrophs that generate oxygen
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What is Mutualism?
When both symbiotic organisms benefit
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Where do Methanogens live?
In swamps and marshes
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What do Methanogens produce as a waste product?
Methane
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Are Methanogens anaerobic or aerobic?
Strict anaerobes
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What is Symbiosis?
An ecological relationship in which two species live in close contact: a larger HOST and a smaller SYMBIONT
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What is Commensalism?
When one organism benefits while the other is neither harmed nor benefited
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What is Parasitism?
An organism called a parasite that harms but doesn't kill a host
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What is a pathogen?
Parasites that cause disease
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What are Exotoxins?
Secretions that cause disease even if the prokaryotes that produce them are not present
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When are Endotoxins released?
Only when bacteria die and their cell walls breakdown
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What is Bioremediation?
The use of organisms to remove pollutants from the environment
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How do Heterotrophs obtain energy and carbon?

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