Microbiology Chapter 11 Flashcards

Coccus, Bacillus, Vibrios, Coccobacillus, Spirilla spiral, Spirochetes spiral

Roughly spherical

Rod-shaped

<p>Slightly rod shaped</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cells that are intermediate in shape between cocci and bacilli</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stiff spiral shaped prokaryotes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Flexible spiral shaped prokaryotes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Binary fission, Snapping, Budding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prokaryotes that vary in shape and size</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stable resting stages that barely metabolize</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The parental cell disappears with the formation of progeny</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of binary fission; the parent cells outer wall tears apart with a snapping movement to create the daughter cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Can develop into clones of the original organism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An outgrowth of the original cell received a copy of the genetic material, enlarged, and is then cut off from the parent cell</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The organism gives birth to live offspring that emerge from the body of the dead mother cell</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A function of the plane of fission and whether daughter cells remain attached</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Diplococci, Streptococci, Tetrads, Sarcinae, Staphylococci</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pairs of cocci</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Long chains</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cocci in a square</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cuboidal packets</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Irregular clusters</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Classifies prokaryotes into 2 phyla in archaea and 24 phyla in bacteria</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Microbes that require extreme conditions of temperature, pH, and/or salinity to survive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thrive at temperatures over 45 degrees Celsius</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Live over 80 degrees Celsius</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Depend on high concentrations of salt to keep their cell walls intact</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Largest group of archaea that converts carbon dioxide, hydrogen gas, and organic acids to methane gas</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Converts organic wastes in sediments to methane, primary sources of environmental methane, produced 10 trillion tons of methane buried in mud, have useful industrial applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because their rRNA sequence and growth characteristics lead scientists to conclude that these organisms are similar to the earliest bacteria</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Live in hot, acidic, and anaerobic environments, often with intense exposure to sun</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Phototrophs that vary greatly in size, shape, arrangement, and mode of reproduction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cyanobacteria reduce atmospheric N2 to NH3</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When many cyanobacteria fix nitrogen in thick-walled cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rod-shaped, obligate anaerobe, many of which form endospores</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Facultative or obligate anaerobes, lack cell walls, smallest free-living cells, colonize mucous membranes of the respiratory and urinary tracts of animals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gangrene, tetanus, botulism, and diarrhea</p> Signup and view all the answers