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Describe bacteria

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most common, most primitive, earliest life form

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Where are bacteria found?

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Found in soil, water , bodies, air,

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Prokaryotic?

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no nucleus or membrane bound organelles

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Characteristics of bacteria?

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  • unicellular
  • has a cell wall of peptodolycan (carb+protein)
  • can be either autotrophic or heterotrophic
  • mostly asexual reproduction
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What is eubacteria?

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-True bacteria
- widely dispersed
- cell wall
- prokaryotic
- heterotrophic
ie- cyanobacteria (green)

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Archaebacteria?

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-ancient
-live in extreme environments (boiling water, freezer)
-anaerobic
- no cell wall
ie- methanogens

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What are the five things bacteria are classified by?q

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  1. Shape
  2. Motility
  3. Energy release
  4. Cell wall
  5. Nutrition
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Three shapes of bacteria?

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  1. Bacillus (rod)
  2. Coccus (sphere)
  3. Spirilla (spiral)
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Motility of bacteria?

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  1. Mobile
    a) flagella (whip like tail)
    b) gliding
    c) tumbling
    d) twisting
  2. Immobile
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Diversity of cell wall of bacteria?

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  1. One layer of cell wall made of carb+protein (Peptodoglycan) = GRAM POSITIVE VIOLET
  2. Two layers of cell wall; second layer made of lipid+carb which repels the gram violet but absorbs the GRAM NEGATIVE RED (Saarinen)
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How do antibiotics kill bacteria?

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disrupt the cell wall

-puncture & burst

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How do bacteria (monerans) obtain energy?

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  1. Autotrophic
    a) phototrophic= get food from light
    b) chemotrophic= get food from inorganic compounds
  2. Heterotrophic
    a) Chemotrophic heterotroph= get food from organic molecules (carbon)
    i. Saphrohyptic
    ii. parasitic
    b) Phototrophic heterotroph= Get food from light but also need to suppliment with organic componds
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What is an autotroph?

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Organism who makes own food

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heterotroph?

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Organism who needs to intake food

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Phototrophic monera?

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Gets food from light

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Chemotrophic monera?

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Gets food from inorganic compounds

ie- nitrosomonas, rhitzobium

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Chemotrophic heterotroph?

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Gets food from organic molecules

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2 types of chemotrophic heterotroph?

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  1. Saprohyptic- organism that absorbs food from decaying matter
  2. Parasitic- organism who lives on or in body of host and recieves nourishment from host
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Phototrophic heterotroph?

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Gets food from the light, but also needs to suppliment with organic compounds

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What is aerobic respiration?

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  • Cellular respiration
  • they free oxygen used to break down food molecules
  • release energy
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What is an obligate aerobe?

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They are bacteria who can not live without oxygen

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What is anaerobic respiration?

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  • Fermentation

- Produced energy without oxygen

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What can oblicage anaerobes not survive with?

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What can obligate aerobes not survive without?

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What is a faculative anaerobic?1
They are bacteria that can survive with or without oxygen
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How do monera reproduce?
Mostly asexual reproduction
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Describe conjugation
- Most primitive way of asexual reproduction - Two bacterial cells come together=cell wass breaks down= Conjugation tube= DNA plasmid (disk) from one cell enters in the other one
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What is an endospore?
- Not reproduction - method for survival of adverse conditions - Endospore develops inside cell membrane with enough protoplasm (DNA) to survive many years in a DORMANT STATE - when conditions become suitable, endospore becomes active as a regular bacteria cell * certain disease causing bacteria can be virulent (alive/can come alive) 1300 years after forming endospore
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How many years can endospores last?
Many. | certain disease causing bacteria endospores can still be virulent 1300 years after forming
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What is the ecological role of bacteria?
-most bacteria DECOMPOSE + RECYCLE organic molecules into nutrients
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Can bacteria preform nitrogen fixation?
Yes | they convert nitrogen in the air to a form plants can use to form protein
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What are pathogenic bacteria?
-disease causing -damages host -ingested or inhaled 1. Directly damages cells or tissues ie. salmonella, tuberculosis 2. Produces poisons or toxins ie- botulism, anthrax
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What are symbiotic monera?
-bacteria -produce vitamins -breakdown food in digestive track ie- ecoli
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In what ways do humans use bacteria?
-production of food (bread, cheese)
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5 ways your body protects you from bacteria?
1. barriers 2 phagocytes (white blood cells) 3. fevers (less effective than with virus) 4. antitoxins (antibodies that bind to inactive toxin) 5. Antibodies (bind to and inactivate bacteria)
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What is an antiseptic?
They destroy or inacticate microorganisms on living tissue | eg- alcohol
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Define the term prokaryotic and identity those organisms in this group
Do not have a nucleus or other organelles Bacteria
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Name the 4 parts of a bacterial cell
``` nucleoid plasmid cytoplasm ribosomes endospore ```
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Define culture (bacteria)
The cultivation of bacteria in an artificial medium containing nutrients
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Pathogen
Disease causing
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Nutrient agar
A general-purpose, nutrient medium used for the cultivation of microbes
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Incoulate
To treat something with a vaccine
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Gram Positive
- Stains violet - peptoglycan cell wall absorbs it - One cell wall
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Gram Negative
- stains red - Lipid layer repels the violet but absorbs this - Two cell walls
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Example of an autotrophic bacteria
cyanobacteria
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Example of a heterotrophic bacteria
e.coli
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symptoms of salmonella
diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps
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symptoms of staphlocauccus
nausea, explosive vomiting, diarrea, cramps, headache
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colostridium botulinium
- can not grow if exposed to oxygen - paralytic illness - nerve poison - do not eat canned foods if the seal had been broken, or if it is damages/dented
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human uses for bacteria
- Produce antibodies - Make medically improtant proteins (insulin) - Food suppliments - food production - break down sewage
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rhizobium bacteria?
bacteria which fix nitrogen in the soil -require a plant host -
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saphrohyte
lives on dead or decaying organic matter
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3 bacteria caused diseases
ecoli poisoning hpv gonorrhea, staphlococcus
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how do we control bacterial growth?
aseptic techniques
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over use of antibiotics will cause?
Bacteria resistance | where bacteria are resistant to the antibiotics, and it no longer harms them
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