CH 10 End of Chapter questions

Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria differs from Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology in that the former

groups bacteria according to phylogenetic relationships.

Bacillus and Lactobacillus are not in the same order. This indicates that which one of the following is not sufficient to assign an organism to a taxon?

Morphological characteristics

Which of the following is used to classify organisms into the Kingdom Fungi?

absorptive; possess cell wall; eukaryotic

Which of the following is false about scientific nomenclature?

Names vary with geographical location.

You could identify an unknown bacterium by all of the following except

percentage of guanine + cytosine.

The wall-less mycoplasmas are considered to be related to gram-positive bacteria. Which of the following would provide the most compelling evidence for this?

They share common rRNA sequences.

Into which group would you place a multicellular organism that has a mouth and lives inside the human liver?

a.Animalia

Into which group would you place a photosynthetic organism that lacks a nucleus and has a thin peptidoglycan wall surrounded by an outer membrane?

e. Pseudomonadota (gram-negative bacteria)

Which is (are) found in all three domains?

1 9+2 flagella

2 70 S ribosome

3 fimbria

4 nucleus

5 peptidoglycan

6 plasma membrane

2,6

2 (70S ribosome) and 6 (plasma membrane) are found across all three domains.

Which is (are) found only in prokaryotes?

1 9+2 flagella

2 70 S ribosome

3 fimbria

4 nucleus

5 peptidoglycan

6 plasma membrane

3,5

3 (fimbria) and 5 (peptidoglycan).