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Microbial Diversity Flashcards

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Domain Archae

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  • Pseudo-peptidoglycan cell walls
  • Plasma membrane is a monolayer
  • Many live under extreme conditions
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Halobacterium

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  • Domain Archaea

- Halophile that lives in conditions of very high salt

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Thermoplasma

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  • Domain Archaea

- Lives in very hot conditions like the deep sea vent

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Phylum Proteobacteria

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  • Gram negative bacteria that are chemoheterotrophs
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Enterobacteriales

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  • Phylum Proteobacteria
  • Order
  • Straight rods; motile; facultative anaerobes
    E.g. Salmonella, Eschericia
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Salmonella

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Phylum Proteobacteria

Order: Enterobacteriales

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Eschericia

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Phylum Proteobacteria

Order: Enterobacteriales

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Streptococcus

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
- Indicator of fecal contamination

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Staphylococcus

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
- Indicator of fecal contamination

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Pseudomonas

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order: Enterobacteriales
- Indicator of fecal contamination

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Pseudomonales

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Phylum Proteobacteria

  • Order
  • Straight or slightly curved
  • Obligate aerobes (mostly)
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Pasteurellales

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Phylum Proteobacteria

  • Order
  • Non-motile
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Pasterurella

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order Pasterurellales
Ex: P.multocida

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Haemophilus

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Phylum Proteobacteria
Order Pasterurellales
Ex: H. influenza

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Virbionales

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Phylum Proteobacteria
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- Slightly curved & major cause of fish diseases
E.g. Vibrio cholerae & V. parahaemolyticus

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

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  • Capable of growth at low levels of nutrients

- Nitogen fixing bacteria and several human pathogens

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Rhizobium

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Class alpha- proteobacteria

  • Symbiotic with legumes
  • Fix nitrogen from atmosphere into ammonia
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Nitrosomonas

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Class alpha- proteobacteria

  • Found in soil
  • Converts ammonia to nitrites
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Nitrobacter

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • Found in soil
  • Converts nitrites to nitrates
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Agrobacterium

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • A. tumefasciens: causes plant tumors
  • Inserts DNA into plant chromosome during infection
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Rickettsia

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • Obligate cellular parasite
  • Transmitted between hosts of ticks or insects (ex. R. ricketsii)
  • Enter by phagocytosis
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R. ricketsii

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rocky mountain spotted fever

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Acetobacter

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

- converts ethanol into vinegar

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Wolbachia

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Class alpha-proteobacteria

  • most common infectious bacterial genus
  • Only infects invertebrates
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Class beta-proteobacteria
Many use anaerobic breakdown products as nutrients
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Thiobacillus
Class beta-proteobacteria - Aerobic assimilation of sulfur - Oxidize H2S
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Neisseria
Class beta-proteobacteria | - Inhabit mucous membranes
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Zooglea
Class beta-proteobacteria | - Aerobic breakdown of sewage in treatment. plants
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Bordetella
Class beta-proteobacteria | - B. parapetussis: whooping cough
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Class delta-proteobacteria
Predatory on other bacteria - sulfur cycle - mostly microaerophilic
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Campylobacter
Class delta-proteobacteria Ex: C.fetus: spontaneous abortions in cattle and sheep C. jejuni: poultry-borne source of intestinal traumas in humans
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Helicobacter pylori
Class delta-proteobacteria | - Peptic and duodenal ulcers
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Phylum Firmicutes
- Gram positives | - Bacillus, Staphylococcus, Listeria
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Bacillus
- Aerobic or facultative anaerobic - Form endospores - Common cause of milk spoilage
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B. anthracis
Phylum Firmicutes Class Bacillus - anthrax - soil contamination
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B. thuringiensis
Phylum Firmicutes Class Bacillus - produces a protein crystal next to endospore - intestinal pH activates protein
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B. cereus
Phylum Firmicutes Class Bacillus - important agent in food poisoning in starch foods
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Staphylococcus
Phylum Firmicutes - irregular clusters of cocci - facultative anaerobes E.g. S.aureus
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Listeria
Phylum Firmicutes - problem in food processing E.g. L. monocytogenes
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Lactobacillus
Class Lactobacillales - Anaerobic aerotolerants - produce lactic acid during fermentation - considered a probiotic
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Streptococcus
Phylum Firmicutes - chain arrangement of cocci - facultative anaerobes - hemolysis common (Group A beta: S.pyogenes; strep throat, scarlet fever) (Group B Beta: S. agalactiae; cause of teat mastitis in cows)
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S. pneumoniae
Streptococcus - non hemolytic - bacterial pneumonia and meningitis
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S. lactis
Streptococcus | - production of cheese
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Class Clostridiales
Phylum FIrmicutes | - Clostridium: strict anaerobes, form endospores
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Class Mycoplasmatales
Phylum Firmicutes - mycoplasma - lack any cell wall - generallt facultative anaerobes - veterinary diseases
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Mycoplasma hypophenumonia
Phylum Firmicutes Class Mycoplasmatales - pneumonia in swine
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M. gallisepticum
Phylum Firmicutes Class Mycoplasmatales - respiratory disease in chickens
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Phylum Cyanobacteria
- photoautotrophic - have a series of internal membranes - live in moist areas - many can fix nitrogen E.g. Anabena & Prochlorococcus
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Phylum Actinobacteria
Gram positives with high G+C content in DNA
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Mycobacterium
Phylum Actinobacteria | - cell wall similar to gram-negative
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Corynebacterium
Phylum Actinobacteria - Pleomorphic E.g. C. diphtheriae
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Streptomyces
Phylum Actinobacteria - very common in soil - reproductive asexual spores - many antibiotics come form this
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Phylum Chlamydiae
- Chlamydia - remains in cell vacuole e. g. C. trachomatis; sexually transmitted urinary infection
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Phylum Spirochaetes
- wide array of environments | E.g. Treponema pallidum & Borrelia burgdorferi
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Treponema pallidum
Phylum Spirochaetes | - cause of syphillus
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Borrelia burgdorferi
Phylum Spirochaetes | - cause of lyme disease
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Phylum Bacteroidetes
- Bacteroides - extremelt abundant in human intestinal tract - anaerobic E.g. B. succinogenes & B. ruminicola

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