Domain of single-celled organisms
Actually 2 Different species - acetogenic and methanogenic bacteria
purple membrane light harvesting bacteriorhodopsin
Gram negative lithotropic oxidation of ammonia to nitrate ( NH3 -> NO2-)
Gram negative oxidation of NO2- to NO3-
It oxidises iron and inorganic sulfur compounds, producing sulphuric acid - used for leaching iron
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixer in root nodules of leguminous plants
Resistant to UV, radiation and desiccation. Forms Biofilms
Source of Taq DNA Polymerase
Nitrogen fixer in heterocysts. Some produce fatal neurotoxins
Filamentous cyanobacteria that exists as plankton and fixes nitrogen
A major group of bacteria that includes many well known pathogens
Commercial production of vinegar and acetic acid, exists at pH3
Gram-negative magnetotaxis, chains of magnetite particles inside cells. aligns North to South
Epidemic cause of Typhus transmitted by head or body louse
Cause of soft rot
Cause of Potato Blight
Causes Dutch Elm Disease
Causes Dry Rot
Induces tumors in plants. Used in biotechnology to introduce genes to plants
pneumonia in cystic fibrosis patients
Whooping cough, droplet infection
Gonorrhea , urethritus.
Bacterial meningitus
Helically curved rods
legionnaires disease, parasite infects human macrophages
Forms pyocyanin, resistant to many antibiotics
Cholera, leads to loss of water
order of gammaproteobacteria, facultative anerobes
Some pathogenic, some not, model organism used in biotech
Causes dysentery, infects intestinal epithelial cells
Typhoid Fever
Causes UTI's, extremely mobile
Causes Plague, humans are accidental hosts, fleas are intermediates
Causes Nosocomial UTI's and pneumonia
Has bright red pigments called prodigiosins, opportunistic nosocomial infections
Prey on other bacteria to acquire some amino acids
Glide, lyse other bacteria, from fruiting spores and myoxospores
Rapidly moving, food poisoning from poultry
Campylobacteriales, peptic ulsers
Gram Positive Phylum of Bacteria includes botulism and anthrax
Anaerobic endospore-forming, rod-shaped order of firmicutes, includes tetanus
Botulism, food poisoning
Tetanus, wound infection
Gram positive pathogenic order that lack a cell wall
Anaerobic endospore-forming, rod-shaped order of firmicutes, includes anthrax
Has a crystalline protein toxic to lepidopteran insects
Anthrax of the skin and lung
MRSA
Intracellular pathogen in food, grows in fridge and causes sepsis and meningitus
Order of Firmicutes that includes scarlet fever
Scarlet fever, tonsilitus, toxic shock. Has tissue destroying enzymes
Dental plaque, causes cavaties
Lactobacillales used in cheese production
Used to make yoghurt
Used to make sourkraut, yoghurt and silage
Heterofermentative, industrially known as dextran
Used to make sour dough
Prolific phylum of bacteria. Gram positive, high GC content
Gram positive, aerobic, high GC content. Produces branching filaments, making it look like mould
Aerobic decomposer of organic compounds. over 500 antibiotic substances produced, 60 of which used in medicine and veterinary science
Causes tuberculosis. gram positive, but resembles gram negative with outer layer replaced with waxy mycolic acid
Causes malignant leprosy, slow growth
Diphtheria. Causes pseudomembrane (lesion) on tonsils and throat. toxin inhibits eukaryotic protein synthesis
Gram negative human pathogens. Obligate parasites, cannot produce ATP
A leading STD, causes urethritus in men, often undiagnosed can cause infertility in women
Inhabit water and mud. tightly coiled, some pathogenic to hmans
Causes Syphilis
Only prokaryote with linear chromosome, causes tick bound lyme diseas
Relapsing fever, caused by body louse
Causes White rot