Cellular metabolism
Prefix for getting carbon from CO2.
What is Auto-?
The two domains on the tree of life that are prokaryotes
What are bacteria and archaea?
Relatively thick peptidoglycan layer
What is gram positive?
Organisms that require O2 for respiration
Obligate aerobes
DNA from degraded bacterium enters competent recipient bacterium (Ambient uptake)
What is transformation?
Prefix for getting carbon from organic molecules.
Interaction that is beneficial to both partners
What is Mutualism?
Relatively thin peptidoglycan layer
What is gram negative?
Can use O2 for respiration, but is not required
Facultative anaerobes
Bacteriophage infects host cell, which produces phages, then is carried to another host cell (Viral transfer)
What is transduction?
Prefix for getting energy from the sun
What is Photo-?
Interaction where one organism benefits at the expense of the other
What is Parasitism?
Vulnerable to penicillin
What is gram positive?
Poisoned by O2
Obligate anaerobes
Genetic material is transferred between two cells that are temporarily joined
What is conjugation?
Prefix for getting energy from organic molecules
What is chemoorgano (organo-)?
Prokaryote reproduction (how do they reproduce?)
What is binary fission?
Resists penicillin
What is gram negative?
Do not use O2 but are not poisoned by it
Aerotolerant anaerobes
Prefix for getting energy from inorganic material
What is litho-?