Chapter 1 Flashcards
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What do micro organisms do
Help maintain the balance of living organisms and chemicals in our environment
What are microbes and micro organisms
Minute living things that individually are usually too small to be seen with the unaided eye. Includes bacteria, fungi, protozoa and microscopic algae and viruses
What do soil microbes do
Breakdown waste and incorporate nitrogen gas from the air into organic compounds’s
What does pathogenic mean
Disease causing
What are some benefits of microbes
Makes food, clothing
What’s the genus
The first name which is capitalized
What is the specific epithet
The species name which is not capitalized
What are bacteria
Relatively simple, single celled organisms. Unicellular
What are prokaryotes
Bacterial cells which includes bacteria and Archaea
What is Bacillus
Rod shaped bacteria
What is coccus
Spherical shaped bacteria
What is spirilli
Corkscrew shaped bacteria
How do bacteria reproduce
They reproduce by binary fission
How do bacteria move
They moved by use of their flagella and cilia
What are bacterial cell walls composed of
They are composed of peptidoglycan
What is archaea
Consists of prokaryotic cells lacking peptidoglycan
What is methanogens
Produce methane as a waste product from respiration
What are extreme halophiles
Salt loving bacteria
What are extreme thermophiles
Live-in hot, sulfurous water
What are fungi
Eukaryotes, organisms whose cells have a distinct nucleus containing the cells DNA surrounded by the nuclear membrane
What is the fungi cell wall composed of
Chitin
What are masses of fungi called
Mycelia
What is hyphae
The long filaments on fungi
What is Protozoa
Unicellular eukaryotic microbes that move by pseudopods flagella or cilia
