Microbes

Question 1

Amoeba

Answer 1

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Rhizopoda
D.C: pseudopodia (false feet), very round nucleus

Question 2

Paramecium

Answer 2

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Cilliophora
D.C: canoe shaped

Question 3

Cilliophora

Answer 3

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Cilliophora
D.C: potato shape

Question 4

Giardia lamblia

Answer 4

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Archaezoa
D.C: debris, beaver fever, teardrop shape, two nuclei, flagella

Question 5

Plasmodium malariae

Answer 5

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Protista
Phylum: Apicomplexa
D.C: erythrocytes (pink, no nucleus, red blood cells) leukocytes (purple, white blood cells) Can only infect red blood cells*

Question 6

Proper name format

Answer 6

Capitalized genus, italics or underline species.

Genus species underlined

Question 7

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Answer 7

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: only yeast that buds*

Question 8

Aspergillus

Answer 8

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: conidia (spherical mass), conidiophore (stem), conidiospores (spores)

Question 9

Pennicillium

Answer 9

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: conidia (spherical mass), conidiophore (stem), conidiospores (spores), Hyphea (pieces of stem)

Question 10

Rhizopus

Answer 10

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
D.C: Sporangiophore (“stick”), sporangium (rounded structure on end), sporangiospores (spores), Hyphea (broken sporangiophores). Common bread mold

Question 11

Peziza

Answer 11

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
D.C: thallus (body of mold), asci (spore sacs, tubes), ascospores (spores, ‘pepperoni’)

Question 12

Coprinus

Answer 12

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
D.C: gills (spokes of the wheel), stripe (stalk), Basidia (bulbous, spore-bearing structures, along edge of gills), basidiospores (spores along outside)

Question 13

Grams stain

Answer 13

Purple= Gram positive

Pink/red=Gram negative

Question 14

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Answer 14

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: diplococci
Stain: Gram negative
D.C: causes gonorrhoeae

Question 15

Streptococcus pyogenes

Answer 15

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: streptococci
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: causes strep throat

Question 16

Staphylococcus aureas

Answer 16

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: staphylococci
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: causes MRSA

Question 17

Sarcina lutea or Sarcina flava or Kocuria flava

Answer 17

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: sarcina
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: have blue ring around pink interior

Question 18

Bacillus subtilis

Answer 18

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: Bacillus
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: small, slender, subtle

Question 19

Bacillus megaterium

Answer 19

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: Gram positive
D.C: endospores

Question 20

Escherichia coli

Answer 20

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: Gram negative
D.C: tiny, pink

Question 21

Bacillus megaterium (ss)

Answer 21

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: endospore stain
D.C: has endospores, endospore stain=safranin and green

Question 22

Rhodospirillum rubrum

Answer 22

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirilum
Stain: simple stain with safranin
D.C: has natural pigments in cytoplasm, photosynthetic*

Question 23

Spirillum itersonii

Answer 23

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirillum
Stain: simple stain with safranin
D.C: lipid inclusions, transparent ovals (look like white gaps)

Question 24

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Answer 24

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: pleomorphic
Stain: methylene blue
D.C: metachromatic granules- causes diphtheria

Question 25

Spirillum volutans

Answer 25

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: spirillum
Stain: flagella stain
D.C: flagella, two, one at each end

Question 26

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Answer 26

Domain: Bacteria
Cell morphology: bacillus
Stain: capsule stain
D.C: capsulem causes pneumonia