Chapter 7- Prokaryotes

Question 1

Peptidoglycan rRNA signature

Answer 1

Domain bacteria

Question 2

Domain bacteria

Answer 2

Gram negative and gram positive

Question 3

Gram negative

Answer 3

Proteobacteria and nonproteobacteria

Question 4

Gram positive

Answer 4

Low g/c and high g/c

Question 5

(α) Pelagibacter

Answer 5

Pelagibacter unique seems to be the moral abundant

Question 6

α- Azospirillum

Answer 6

Uses plant nutrient and in return fixes nitrogen

Question 7

α- Acetobacter

Answer 7

Industrially important aerobic organisms that inert ethanol into acetic acid

Question 8

α- Caulobacter

Answer 8

Have stalks and flagella

Question 9

α- Rhizobium, Bradyrhizobium

Answer 9

Are agriculturally important by infecting the roots of leguminous plants. They form nodules and the bacteria and plant form a symbiotic relationship resulting in fixation of nitrogen

Question 10

α- Agrobacterium

Answer 10

A plant pathogen that causes a tumor like disease called a crown gall

Question 11

α- Nitrosomonas

Answer 11

Oxidize ammonium to nitrate

Question 12

α- Nitrobacter

Answer 12

Oxidizes nitrite into a species of nitrates in the process of nitrification

Question 13

β- thiobacillus

Answer 13

Important in sulfur cycle, obtains energy by oxidizing the reduced forms of sulfur

Question 14

β- bordetella

Answer 14

Bordetella pertussis causes pertussis or whopping cough

Question 15

β- Neisserua gonorrhea

Answer 15

Causative agent of gonorrhoea

Question 16

β- N. Meningitidis

Answer 16

The agent of meningococcal meningitis

Question 17

γ- Pseudomonas

Answer 17

An opportunistic pathogen that is metabolically diverse

Question 18

γ- legionella

Answer 18

causes an outbreak of pneumonia

Question 19

γ- vibrio cholerae

Answer 19

the causative agent of cholera which is characterized by a profuse watery diarrhea (rice water stool)

Question 20

γ- V. parahaemolyticus

Answer 20

less serious form of gastroenteritis, can be caused by undercooked shellfish

Question 21

γ- Enterobacteriales

Answer 21

often called enterics and they inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and animals

Question 22

γ- Echerichia

Answer 22

It is found in water or food when it has fecal contamination, not usually pathogenic but it can cause urinary tracts infections

Question 23

γ- Salmonella

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are potentially pathogenic and it is common in the intestinal tracts in poultry and cattle

Question 24

γ- Salmonella enterica

Answer 24

all the members of the genus ~salmonella~

Question 25

γ- Salmonella typhi

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causes typhoid fever

Question 26

γ- salmonella typhimurium

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is called salmonellosis

Question 27

γ- Shigella

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responsible for a disease called bacillary dysentery or shigellosis only found in humans

Question 28

γ- Yersinia

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Yersinia pestis causes plague, the black death, found from rats squirrels or fleas

Question 29

γ- haemophilus

Answer 29

inhabits the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, mouth, vagina, and intestinal tract

Question 30

γ- haemophilus influenzae

Answer 30

it was wrongfully believed that this caused influenza but it was the common cause of meningitis in young children and it is the common cause of ear aches