Diseases
This bacterial phylum is responsible for chlamydia.
What is chlamydiae?
The first known living organisms were part of this domaine.
What is bacteria?
This is the word for sphere-shaped bacteria.
What is coccus?
This term refers to a point on a phylogeny where two lineages split.
What is a node?
This term describes the use of living organisms to remove pollutants.
What is bioremediation?
This bacterial phylum is responsible for Leprosy.
What is Actinobacteria?
This is the term for the rapid diversification of modern animal phyla 542 Ma.
What is the Cambrian Explosion?
What is peptidoglycan?
This structure in a phylogeny represents uncertainty.
What is a polytomy?
This domaine is the closest prokaryotic relative to our own.
What is Archaea?
This bacterial phylum is responsible for tetanus.
What is Firmicutes?
A chemolithoautotroph uses this as its source of carbon.
What is carbon dioxide?
This type of bacterial morphology includes a second cell membrane as part of its cell wall.
What is gram-negative?
Two taxa that are more closely related to each other than to any other taxa are considered this type of taxa.
What are sister taxa?
Prokaryotes reproduce by this process.
This bacterial phylum is responsible for meningitis.
What is Proteobacteria?
The evolution of multicellular life and chloroplasts occurred this long ago.
What is 1 Ga?
This bacterial phylum is known for being photosynthetic.
What is cyanobacteria?
This type of group includes an ancestor but not all of its descendants.
What is a paraphyletic group?
Prokaryotes lack this structure inside their cells that in eukaryotes contain DNA.
What is a nucleus?
This bacterial phylum is responsible for syphilis.
What is spirochaetes?
This is how long ago the first record of life appears in the fossil record.
What is 3.5 Ga?
This type of lateral gene transfer involves a cell collecting the genetic material of another dead cell.
What is transformation?
This type of group includes unrelated taxa without their most recent common ancestor.
What is a polyphyletic group?
This Archaean phylum is methanogenic.
What is Euryarchaea?