Gram Positive
Gram Negative
Deep Branching
Unique Microbes
Gene Editing
100

A pathogen in the phyla Firmicutes (100 points PER answer) (Multiple Answers)

What is Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium tetani, Clostridiodes difficile, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumonia, Streptococcus pyogenes?

100

A pathogen in the phyla proteobacteria (100 points PER answer) (Multiple Answers)

What is Rickettsia rickettsii, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, Burkholderia cepacia, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Legionella pneumophilia?
100

A thermophilic and heterotrophic genus that has ornithine in peptidoglycan cross-bridges

What is Thermus?

100

Bacteria that have no cell wall and a double membrane bound nucleoid

What is Planctomycetes?

100

A dual-functional regulatory protein that increases the expression of a cloned gen when arabinose is present

What is araC?

200

Low GC Gram positive phyla

What is Firmicutes?

200
A group belonging to Gammaproteobacteria known to versatile, fermenting rods

What is Enterobacteriaceae?

200

A group of phyla with the fastest doubling rates of all cells and high mutation rates

What is deep branching thermophiles (DBT)?

200

Wrinkled microbes that possess a cytoskeleton

What is Verrucomicrobia?

200

An endonuclease that forms a ribonucleoprotein complex and cleaves recognized DNA sequences

What is Cas9?

300

Phyla that includes unusual, mycelia forming bacteria

What is Actinobacteria?

300

A species that forms fruiting bodies to disperse myxospores when starved

What is Myxococcus xanthus?

300

The bacterium awarded in the Guinness Book of World Records for its exceptional resistance to radiation

What is Deinococcus radiodurans?

300

The only oxygenic phototrophic prokaryotes

What is Cyanobacteria?
300

A cloning vector (plasmid) with an inserted gene of interest

What is recombinant plasmid?

400

Bacteria with terminal endospores that produce a drumstick-like morphology

What is Clostridiales?

400

A genus in betaproteobacteria involved in wastewater treatment

What is Nitrosomonas?

400

Green sulfur bacteria that split H2S using PSI

What is Chlorobi?

400

A pathogen that possess endoflagella

What is Treponema pallidum, Borrelia recurrentis, Borrelia burgdorferi?

400

A repair mechanism that incorporates a donor molecule of DNA

What is homology-directed repair?

500

A bacteria that utilizes actin propulsions to penetrate host cells

What is Listeria monocytogenes?

500

The subgroup of Proteobacteria known for endosymbionts and some intracellular pathogens

What is Alphaproteobacteria?

500

Green nonsulfur bacteria that form filamentous mats in association with thermophilic cyanobacteria

What is Chloroflexi?

500

A pathogen known to form elementary bodies

What is Chlamydia trachomatis/pneumoniae?

500

A marker on native proteins chelated by metal ions in affinity chromatography

What is poly-histidine tag?

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