Bacteria
A domain of unicellular prokaryotes that have cell walls containing peptidoglycan.
What is bacteria?
A sticky layer that surrounds the cell walls of some bacteria, protecting the cell surface and sometimes helping to glue the cell to surfaces.
What is a Capsule?
Bacteria that require oxygen to grow.
What are Aerobes?
This gram-type stains Purple.
What is Gram-Positive
This was placed inside of the jaws of women workers.
What is led paint or paintbrush.
The length of Bacteria.
What is 1-2 µm?
Includes plasma membrane, cell wall, and glycocalyx.
Organism that can survive with or without oxygen.
What are Facultative?
This Gram-type does not have Teichoic Acids.
What is Gram-Negative.
Appendages that allow bacteria to attach to each other and to transfer DNA.
What are pili?
This is NOT effective in protecting the cell against osmotic stress.
What is the Cytoplasmic Membrane
Cold-loving microbes that have much more unsaturated fatty-acids.
What are Psychrophiles?
This gram-stain has a thin layer of peptidoglycan.
What is Gram-negative?
In 79 A.D., this volcano resulted in the deaths of thousands in the Roman City of Pompeii.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Bacteria that can carry out photosynthesis.
What are Cyanobacteria?
The external surface of a plasma membrane that is important for cell-to-cell communication.
What is Glycocalyx?
Bacteria that grow optimally at a pH above 8.5.
What are Alkalophiles?
The gram-stain you would classify if you view both pink and purple.
What is Gram-Variable?
Believed location for the death of Amelia Earheart.
What is Howland Islands?
-Gram positive
-Some Pathogenic
-Many are important in food production and biotech
-Ex: Lactic Acid Bacteria, Tetanus, Pneumonia
What are Firmicutes?
A protein-carbohydrate compound that makes the cell walls of bacteria rigid.
What is Peptidoglycan?
Bacteria that do not utilize oxygen but can survive and grow in its presence.
What are Aerotolerant Anaerobes?
The gram-stain are Actinobacteria.
What is Gram-positive.
Climber Aron Ralston was trapped in a Utah Canyon for this amount of time before cutting his own are off.
What is 127 hours?