Bacteria
What do plasmids spread?
DNA
Are members of this domain believed to be the earliest forms of life?
Yes
What short hair like projections do bacteria have that aid in attachment?
Pili
What domain is this kingdom in?
Eukarya
What are the two prokaryotic domains?
Bacteria and Archaea
Bacteria have one circular chromosome in the
Nucleoid Region
These guys like high heat environments.
Thermophiles
Some bacteria have a ____ outside the cell wall that helps disease causing bacteria avoid the immune system of the host and aid in attachment.
Capsule
What are the two examples of fungi like protists and what do they do?
Chytrids have furthered the decline of the frog population, and Slime molds creep along with their fast growth rate
Some bacteria are able to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form that can be used by plants. What is this process called?
Nitrogen fixation
What are two ways bacteria is harmful to humans?
Disease and biofilms
What waste do some anaerobic forms produce?
Methane gas
What involves using bacteria to help clean up pollution of water, air, or soil?
Bioremediation
What are animal like protists and plant like protists called?
Protozoans and Algae
What four kingdoms are in domain Eukarya?
Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia
What types of bacteria carry out photosynthesis?
cyanobacteria
What thing that is produced by this domain is used in PCR tests?
Taq polymerases
What determines the thickness of the material in the cell wall?
The Gram stain
What are examples of animal like protists and what do they do?
Trypanosomes cause sleeping sickness, Plasmodium causes malaria, and Foraminifera skeletons make up the limestone used to build the pyramids.
Who makes their own food, who takes in food, and who does both?
Who makes their own food, who takes in food, and who does both?
What material are bacteria cell walls made of?
Peptidoglycan
Who likes to live in high salt environments?
Halophiles
What are 5 ways bacteria are helpful to humans?
Fermented foods, bioremediation, decomposition, Nitrogen fixation, oxygenation of the atmosphere
List three examples of plant-like protists and what they do. (Can only use algae in the name once)
Red Algae and all the others can be eaten, Dinoflagellates cause red tide, and Diatoms have glass shells
What three famous contributions did Ronald Coase have for the economic literature?
theory of the firm which said firms exist to minimize transaction costs, the lighthouse paper which destroyed blackboard economics/ some parts of public goods theory, and reforming the Pigouvian thought of externalities must be taxed or subsidized to be fixed. They are interalized instead.