Unit One Exam - Prokaryotes / Eukatyotes Flashcards
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Two domains that prokaryotes are divided into?
Bacteria and Archaea
What prokaryotes are extremophiles?
Archaea
3 characteristic shapes of bacteria?
Bacillus - rod shaped
Coccus - spherical
Spirillum - cork screw
What are Bacteria cell walls made of?
Peptidoglycan
What does gram positive mean?
Represents a bacteria with a thick peptidoglycan wall, stains purple
What is gram negative?
Stains red, represents bacteria with a thin peptidoglycan wall
Agar?
A semi-solid nutrient dense substance used for culturing bacteria
What is a colony?
A group of bacteria descending from a single cell
How do you generate colonies on a plate of agar?
Use an isolation streak
What are Cyanobacteria?
Photosynthetic phylum of bacteria
What do these have in common?
Plants
Animals
Fungi
Protists
They are eukaryotes in domain eukarya
What is different about protist?
A throw away category, has a eukaryotic cell structure but do not fit for the other 3
What are photosynthetic protist?
Algae
What are protozoans?
Heterotrophic protist
What is multicellular algae?
Seaweed
What is unicellular algae?
Phytoplankton
What is a slime mold?
Protozoan
How do slime molds differ from fungi?
Slime molds posses flagellated cells at one point in life cycle
They phagocytize, (engulf whole cells / macromolecules)
Two types of slime mold exist?
Cellular slime mold which is single cell
Plasmodia slime mold which exist as a fan shaped mass of multi nucleated cytoplasm
What are fungi described as?
Saprotroph
What are saprotroph?
Organism (fungi) that lives off dead or decaying organic material by secreting digestive enzymes into its environment to breakdown its desired nutrition and then absorb it via pinocytosis
What do the cell walls of fungi consist of?
Chitin, a sugary molecule also found in exoskeletons of arthropods
Are fungi heterotrophic?
Yes there are no photosynthetic fungi
Two reasons fungi are closely related to animals?
Chitin in cell walls and heterotrophic