16 Questions
What is the main focus of the Human Microbiome Project launched by NIH in December 2007?
Studying the impact of microbes and their genes on human health and disease
Which type of bacteria is strongly correlated with obesity and type 2 diabetes?
Firmicutes
What is the main diet of lower termites?
Wood
What is the characteristic feature of the Firmicutes phylum of bacteria?
Most have a gram-positive cell wall structure with few gram-negative bacteria
What is the term for an interaction between different species that are associated with each other within a community?
Mutualism
Which type of symbiotic relationship involves two species benefiting from each other?
Mutualism
In which type of symbiotic relationship does one population harm another but remains unaffected itself?
Amensalism
What type of symbiotic relationship involves one organism benefiting while the other is unaffected?
Commensalism
In which type of symbiotic relationship does one organism benefit while harming the other?
Parasitism
Which type of symbiotic relationship involves both organisms benefiting each other?
Cooperation
Who is credited with the initial suggestion that chloroplasts may have originated from ancestral photosynthetic bacteria living symbiotically inside a eukaryotic cell?
Konstantin Mereschkowski
What term refers to predation among microbes involving a predator species that attacks and usually kills its prey?
Predation
Who published her ideas regarding the endosymbiotic hypothesis of the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts in 1967?
Lynn Margulis
Who suggested that mitochondria and chloroplasts are of prokaryotic origin?
Lynn Margulis
What term is used for an interaction between different organisms who try to acquire the same resource?
Competition
What is an example of an endoparasite mentioned in the text?
Wolbachia pipientis
Test your knowledge about the endosymbionts and microbiome of lower termites. Learn about the protists, bacteria, and archaea that inhabit termite guts and their interactions. Understand the concept of resident and transient microbiota.
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