Prokaryotes

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Assessing the hydrocarbon degrading potential of indigenous bacteria isolated from crude oil tank bottom sludge and hydrocarbon-contaminated soil of Azzawiya oil refinery, Libya

af daniela perez

Ocean -Moh.K

af Ktecha Mohammad

Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases

af Jane Smith

Biological Control Techniques

af Lauren Miller

Types

Methanogens

- digestive tracts - decomposing materials in landfills - muck on standing water

Extremophiles

Extreme thermophiles

Extreme halophiles

Domain Eukarya

Ancestor

Domain Bacteria

Gram-positive bacteria

mycoplasms

smallest cells

pathogens

strptococcus

staphylococcus

Clostridium botulinum = botulism

obligate anerobe

Bacillus anthracis = anthrax

can come in form of powder as endospores

Actinomycetes

decomposes soil

Cyanobacteria: photoautotrophic

primary endosymbiosis in evolution of plants with chloroplasts that were cyanobacteria

sinks for CO2 in oceans

generate oxygen

anabaena

photoplankton

Oscillatoria (thread-like colony) individual shape is currently

Spirochetes: (spirili/helical) heterotrophs

Borrelia burgdorferi = Lyme disease

Treponema pallidum = syphullus

Chlamydias: chemoheterotrophs

parasitic

Chlamydia trachomatis

non-gonococcal urethritis when sexually transmitted

blindness

Proteobacteria (gram-negative): hetero, chemoauto, photauto, anerobic and aerobic

E. Coli

not usually harmful

found in intestine

Sulfer Bacteria

Pathogens

Vibrio cholerae

Salmonella

Legionella

Thiomargarita namibiensis

Agrobacterium

used for genetic engineering

tumors in plants

Rhizobium

nitrogen fixation for legumes (plants)

heterotroph

Domain Archaea

Nanoarchaeotes

Crenarchaeotes

Euryarchaeots

Korarchaeotes