Enviro Material/Final

Question 1

Study of microbes in their natural habitat

Answer 1

Environmental Microbiology

Question 2

Study of interactions between microbes and their environment, both living and non living

Answer 2

Microbial ecology

Question 3

Living or dead organisms are

Answer 3

Biotic

Question 4

Non-living compounds such as gases, minerals, water, temperature and light.

Answer 4

Abiotic

Question 5

Particular climactic regions

Answer 5

Biome

Question 6

Organisms of the same species within a community

Answer 6

Population

Question 7

Organisms that live together that exhibit well-defined nutritional or behavioral interrelationships

Answer 7

Community

Question 8

Physical location in the environment to which an organism has adapted

Answer 8

Habitat

Question 9

Role that a species, or population, serves in a community; nutritional intake, position in the community, and rate of population growth

Answer 9

Niche

Question 10

Provide fundamental energy source: produce organic compounds by assimilating inorganic carbon fro the atmosphere

Answer 10

Producer

Question 11

Feed on other living organisms and obtain energy from chemical bonds

Answer 11

Consumer

Question 12

Microbes breakdown and absorb inorganic matter of dead organisms

Answer 12

Decomposer

Question 13

actual nutritional structure of a community

Answer 13

Food Webs

Question 14

symbiotic associations between a fungus and a cyanobacterium or green alga

Answer 14

Lichen

Question 15

nitrogen fixing bacteria that live inside root nodules of some plants

Answer 15

Rhizobia

Question 16

symbiotic organs formed between fungi and certain plant roots

Answer 16

Mycorrhizae

Question 17

Cryptobiotic soil

Answer 17

Biological Soil Crust

Question 18

Originates in the habitat

Answer 18

energy/nutrients

Question 19

Essential building blocks of protoplasm are recycled between biotic and abiotic environments

Answer 19

Origin of bioelements

Question 20

Remove elements from their inorganic reservoirs and convey them into the food web.

Answer 20

Role of microorganisms in food web

Question 21

How do microbial mutualists like mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobial bacteria benefit humans?

Answer 21

Important to soil chemistry/supplies nitrogen to soil

Question 22

Most primitive of life forms, closely related to eukaryotes than bacteria; extremophiles

Answer 22

Archae/prokaryotes

Question 23

Evolved from prokaryotes;contain organelles;

Answer 23

Eukaryotes

Question 24

+ thick peptidoglycan wall with little periplasmic space/ - thin peptidoglycan layer with large periplasmic space;cell membrane on outter part

Answer 24

Gram pos.(purple) vs gram neg.(red)

Question 25

Reacting molecule loses water molecule, forming water

Answer 25

Dehydration synthesis

Question 26

Amino acid to a protein;Two molecules form a larger molecule

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Condensation reaction

Question 27

Bacteria

Answer 27

Bacteria

Question 28

prokaryotes

Answer 28

prokaryotes