https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads Everything you need to know about prokaryotes, Archaea or Bacteria, in one place. en-us 2016-03-17 00:20:31 UTC 2025-10-02 09:21:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/92039029/edf88322a4e986d815373f8c7056b04d96e68238/ebfc08c03f86cb216d88226008c80eea.jpg https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428031 Spirochetes vary in their metabolism, some are obligate aerobes while others are obligate anaerobes. They are typically gram negative.]]> 2016-02-02 14:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428031 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428032 Gram positive cocci are considered parasitic in the scope of ecology. They are the cause of 1/3 of all bacterial infections in humans, including strep throat, pneumonia, food poisoning and meningitis]]> 2016-02-02 13:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428032 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428033 Aquaspririllum magnetotacticum Is a type of Spirochete bacteria that is fascinating because it contains magnetic particles. These particles allow it to use Earth's magnetic field to orient itself in the water.]]> 2016-02-02 14:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428033 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428034 Epsilonproteobacteria are unicellular Gram negative rods or spirals, with single, unsheathed polar flagella.  ]]> 2016-02-02 14:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428034 haley_kowal https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428035 Some cyanobacteria are heterocysts, by definition meaning that they carry out only nitrogen fixation converting into either nitrate or ammonia. ]]> 2016-02-02 14:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428035 evan_macgregor https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428036 Chlamydia infects its hosts by using a type III secretion apparatus which is injected into the host's cytoplasm]]> 2016-02-02 14:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428036 alexander_eldridge https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428037 A genus in this class is agrobacterium, which causes tumors in plants, however some species are used to genetically engineer crop plants]]> 2016-02-02 14:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428037 victoria_dennison https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428038 Watch this video for a visual representation of the Bacteria ]]> 2016-02-02 14:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428038 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428039 Another species is Bdellovibrio. The Bdellovibrio attack other species of bacteria. They can more faster than any other bacteria species at 100um/sec. Once attached to its preys outer membrane it will penetrate the wall.  Bdellovibrio plays a important role in natural water purification. It can also change the structure and function of its prey. ]]> 2016-02-02 14:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428039 evan_macgregor https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428040 Some strains of chlamydia are responsible for conjunctivitis and respiratory problems, but the most commonly known is Chlamydia trachomatis, an STD. Chlamydia is parasitic and all forms of the bacteria have harmful effects on its human recipients. ]]> 2016-02-02 14:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428040 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428041 The other type known as B. subtilis: notable food spoiler, causing ropiness in bread and related food.]]> 2016-02-02 14:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428041 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428042 Staphylococcus is a gram positive aerobic cocci. It is pathogenic and resistant to some forms of antibiotics]]> 2016-02-02 14:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428042 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428043 Two Bacillus species are considered medically significant: B. anthracis, which causes anthrax, and B. cereus, which causes a foodborne illness similar to that of Staphylococcus.  ]]> 2016-02-02 14:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428043 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428044 Thiomargarita namibiensis oxidizes hydrogen sulfide to produce sulfur as a waste product. It is actually visible, about the size of the head of the fruit fly. It's large size is due to a vacuole that takes up 80 to 90 percent of the cell space.]]> 2016-02-02 14:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428044 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428045 "Recent studies have indicated that chemoautotrophic Epsilonproteobacteria might play an important role, especially as anaerobic or microaerophilic dark CO2-fixing organisms, in marine pelagic redoxclines." - American Society for Microbiology]]> 2016-02-02 14:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428045 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428046 Not all Spirochetes are harmful, in fact, in oysters and mussels the Spirochetes help them by sweeping food into the oyster/ mussel, almost like cilia. Therefore, they are participating in mutualism.]]> 2016-02-02 14:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428046 victoria_dennison https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428047 Gram Positive Bacilli is both helpful and pathogenic, depending on the species of this Bacteria. The two subgroups of this bacteria is actinmycetes and Mycoplasmas. Actinmycetes can cause TB or leprosy, however, it can also decompose the organic matter in the soil. Also, Gram Positive Bacilli can cause diseases on animal and humans. They can be infected by feeding of plants that have been contaminated by this bacteria. ]]> 2016-02-02 14:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428047 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428048 There are three major types of bacilli]]> 2016-02-02 14:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428048 haley_kowal https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428049 Aka blue-green algae, this type of bacteria are found mainly in marine and freshwater habitats, often times giving water its blue-green color. ]]> 2016-02-02 13:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428049 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428051 This example of a spherical gram positive cocci can result in pneumonia, skin diseases, and scarlet fever]]> 2016-02-02 13:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428051 cory_hess https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428052 2016-02-02 14:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428052 alexander_eldridge https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428053 members of this class are highly diverse]]> 2016-02-02 13:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428053 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428054 Under microscopic examination they have a rod shape with a oval endospore at one end causing it to bulge ]]> 2016-02-02 14:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428054 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428055 Myxobacteria are thought to be slime-secreting. When food is unavailable or soil drives out the myxobacteria cells will move together to form a fruiting body which will then release myxospores. Myxospores are a reproductive unit capable of forming new individuals without sexual fusion.  ]]> 2016-02-02 14:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428055 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428056 E. Coli is living in your gut right now, doing helpful things for you like producing vitamin K. However, there are pathogenic strains that can cause kidney failure, diarrhea, and other issues. You might get these illnesses if you contact pathogenic E Coli in food such as raw meat. ]]> 2016-02-02 13:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428056 victoria_dennison https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428057 2016-02-02 13:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428057 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428058 Delta Proteobacteria includes fruit-body forming myxobacteria ]]> 2016-02-02 13:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428058 cory_hess https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428059 These bacteria are rod shaped]]> 2016-02-02 13:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428059 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428060 Nonpathogenic Epsilonproteobacteria occurs dominantly in various redoxclines such as deep‐sea vents, stratified ocean, terrestrial sulfidic caves, and oil fields as both epi‐ or endosymbionts and free‐living microorganisms.]]> 2016-02-02 13:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428060 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428061 Treponema pallidum, a form of Spirochetes bacteria, is the cause of syphilis, an STD.]]> 2016-02-02 13:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428061 evan_macgregor https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428062 The chlamydia family of bacteria consists of some of the smallest living organisms. They lack a cell wall, which often leads to the bacteria going undetected in its host (animal cell). They additionally gram negative. ]]> 2016-02-02 13:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428062 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428063 2016-02-02 13:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428063 alexander_eldridge https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428064 Rickettsiaceae Is a genus which falls under the class of Alpha Proteobacteria. In this picture the bacteria are the red dots on the cells of a deer tick]]> 2016-02-02 13:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428064 victoria_dennison https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428065 Gram Positive Bacilli is both helpful and pathogenic, depending on the species of this Bacteria. The two subgroups of this bacteria is actinmycetes and Mycoplasmas. Actinmycetes can cause TB or leprosy, however, it can also decompose the organic matter in the soil. Also, Gram Positive Bacilli can cause diseases on animal and humans. They can be infected by feeding of plants that have been contaminated by this bacteria. ]]> 2016-02-02 13:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428065 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428066 these rod shaped bacteria can be obligate anaerobes or facultative anaerobes depending on their species.

]]> 2016-02-02 13:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428066 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428067 One neat structural characteristic of Spirochetes bacteria is that they have axial filaments, which allow them to move in corkscrew motions]]> 2016-02-02 13:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428067 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428068 Most of the known species of this subgroup inhabit the digestive tracts of animals and are symbionts or pathogens. Nonpathogenic Epsilon proteobacteria play key roles in biogeochemical cycles in various extreme environments on earth.]]> 2016-02-02 13:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428068 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428069 A bit more about Legionnaire's Disease, which is caused by the proteobacteria Legionella.]]> 2016-02-02 13:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428069 cory_hess https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428070 Contains some aerobic bacteria, some facultative anaerobes ]]> 2016-02-02 13:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428070 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428071 Gram positive cocci have a thicker cell wall than the gram negative cocci. In their cell wall there are teichoic and lipoteichoic acids.]]> 2016-02-02 13:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428071 cory_hess https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428072 This group of bacteria includes nitrosonomas: a soil bacteria that can recycle nitrogen by oxidizing ammonium]]> 2016-02-02 13:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428072 haley_kowal https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428073

They are photoautotrophs (derives energy for food synthesis from light, capable of using carbon dioxide as its principal source of carbon) 

Share many characteristics with chloroplasts- it's possible chloroplast evolved from a type of cyanobacteria 

Only type of prokaryote with photosynthesis 

]]> 2016-02-02 13:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428073 victoria_dennison https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428074 Rod shaped bacteria that forms colonies of  branched chains of cells]]> 2016-02-02 13:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428074 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428075 Borrelia burgdoferi is a type of Spirochete bacteria that causes Limes disease.]]> 2016-02-02 13:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428075 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428076 This is Legionella, the gamma proteobacteria responsible for Legionnaire's disease. It is found in fresh water, particularly in warm water such as in hot tubs. THIS IS WHY YOU AVOID PUBLIC HOT TUBS!]]> 2016-02-02 13:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428076 https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428077 The Campylobacter is a species in this subgroup. It causes blood poisoning and intestinal inflammation. Most species in this subgroup are pathogenic to humans and other animals. ]]> 2016-02-02 13:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/melanie773/6yftnf3fjads/wish/101428077