What are Bacteria?
Unicellular or Multicellular?
Unicellular
Structure that contains the genetic information
nucleoid
How do most bacteria reproduce
binary fission
What is the main purpose of Gram staining?
Classify bacteria based on cell wall structure
ribosomes
Prokaryotes or Eukaryotes?
Prokaryotes
Used to protect and shape
Cell Wall
During binary fission, what happens first
DNA is copied
Gram-positive bacteria appear which color after Gram staining?
purple
What does antibiotic resistance mean?
Bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment
Which bacterial shape is spherical?
coccus
Used for movement
flagella
Bacteria that require oxygen to survive are called
aerobes
Gram-positive bacteria retain the crystal violet stain because they have a thick/ thin peptidoglycan layer?
thick
How can bacteria become antibiotic resistant?
Through mutations and gene transfe
Rod-shaped bacteria are classified as:
Bacillus
Which molecule makes up the cell walls of most bacteria
Peptidoglycan
Bacteria that obtain energy from sunlight are classified as:
photoautotroph
Gram-negative bacteria retain the crystal violet stain because they have a thick or thin peptidoglycan layer.
thin
Which type of bacteria can survive with or without oxygen?
Facultative anaerobes
Spiral-shaped bacteria are known as
spirillus
pili
Which process allows bacteria to exchange genetic material but is NOT reproduction?
conjugation
What does a gram + staphylococcus bacteria look like?
purple, cluster, sphere
Protects against immune responses and drying out
capsule