Bacteria

Question 1

What are methanogens?

Answer 1

produce methane

Question 2

What are halophiles?

Answer 2

like it salty

Question 3

What are cocci?

Answer 3

spehrical

Question 4

What arwe bacilli?

Answer 4

rod shapped

Question 5

What are spirilla or spirochetes?

Answer 5

spiral shaped

Question 6

What are coccobacilli?

Answer 6

short rods

Question 7

What are square bacteria found?

Answer 7

salty pools

Question 8

What are prosthecae?

Answer 8

bacteria with extensions

Question 9

What are vibro?

Answer 9

gently curved rods

Question 10

What are pleomorphism?

Answer 10

variations in shape

Question 11

What are diplococci?

Answer 11

spherical in spairs

Question 12

What are strepto cocci?

Answer 12

spechiral in chains

Question 13

What is staphlylococci?

Answer 13

spehcial in clusters

Question 14

What are tetrads?

Answer 14

cocci in groups of 4

Question 15

What are sarcinae?

Answer 15

cocci in groups of 8,16,32

Question 16

What color do thick peptidoglycan walls stain?

Answer 16

Gram posotive and purple

Question 17

What color do thin walls inside an outer lipid layer stain?

Answer 17

Gram negative and pink

Question 18

How can you identify bacteria?

Answer 18

Whether they move or not
how they move
A slimy layer they secrete

Question 19

What are heterotrophs?

Answer 19

consumers

Question 20

What are chemoheterotrophs?

Answer 20

take in organic molecules for carbon supply and energy

Question 21

What are photoautotrophs?

Answer 21

use sunlight to make food through photosynthesis

Question 22

What are cyanobacteria?

Answer 22

found in fresh water, salt water, on land

Question 23

What do cyanobateria have?

Answer 23

chlorophyll and a blush pighment called phycocyanin

Question 24

What are chemoautotrophs?

Answer 24

make organic carbon miolecules from co2

Question 25

What elements do chemoautoptrophs use?

Answer 25

amonia, hydrogen sulfinde, nitrates, sulfur, or oxygen

Question 26

Where can chemoautotrophs be found?

Answer 26

communities at the bottom of the ocean

Question 27

What are obligate aerobes?

Answer 27

bacteria that must have oxygen to survive

Question 28

What is bacteria anaerobe?

Answer 28

Bacteria that must live without oxygen

Question 29

What is botuliism?

Answer 29

causes serious food poisoning

Question 30

What is an example of an obligate anerobe?

Answer 30

Clostridium botulinum

Question 31

What are faculative anaerobes?

Answer 31

Bacteria that dont require oxygeen but are not killed by it

Question 32

WHat can faculative anaerobes do?

Answer 32

cellular resperation and fermentation

Question 33

What is ecoli?

Answer 33

anaerobically in your intestine, and aerobically in contaminated water

Question 34

Who came up with techniques to isolate and identify disease casusing microorganisms?

Answer 34

Robert Kush

Question 35

What did he do to grow bacteria in pure culture?

Answer 35

Agar

Question 36

What did he prove was caused by bacteria?

Answer 36

Anthrax

Question 37

What is inoculation?

Answer 37

Adding bacteria to a culture dish