Bacteria taxonomy and ch 1

monococcus flavus

monococcus

stomatococcus spp

monococcus

neisseria gonorrhoeae

diplococci

entrococcus spp

diploccoci

pediococcus spp

tetrad coccus

micrococcus spp

tetrad coccus

sarcina spp

sarcina

streptococcus pyogenes

streptococci

streptococcus agalactae

streptococci

staphylococcus auieus

staphylococci

staphylococcus epidermidis

staphylococci

staphylococcus lugdurnensis

staphylococci

salmonella spp

bacilli

klebsiella spp

bacilla

proteus spp

bacilli

enterobacter spp

bacilli

vibrio cholerae

vibrio

vibrio parahaemolyticus

vibrio

helicobacter pylori

spirillum

campylobacter spp

spirillum

treponema pallidum

spirochete

borrelia burgdorferi

spirochete

mycoplasma spp

pleomorphic

rickettsia spp

pleomorphic

streptobacillus spp

hybrid (streptobacillus)

yersinia spp

hybrid (coccobacillus)

microorganisms

organisms too small to see with the naked eye

Otzi the Iceman

shows evidence of prehistoric attempts to treat infection/ disease

The Bible

realized diseases could be communicable (leprosy)

Ancient Greeks

believed in mal’aria (“bad air”) and supernatural forces

The Romans

believed miasma hypothesis, developed aqueducts, protected from waterborne illnesses

Hippocrates

said diseases have natural causes from within their patients/ environments

Thucydides

Cause-and-effect reasoning, Athenian plague

Varro

said diseases were caused by what we cannot see

Leeuwenhook

First to develop a lens powerful enough to see microorganisms, called them animalcules

Pasteur

Developed pasteurization and fermentation, conducted swam neck flask experiment

Koch

discovered connection between single disease and single microbe (Koch’s postulate)

phylogeny

binomial nomenclature

Bergey’s Manuals

first set of manuals for identifying and classifying microorganisms

micrometer

10^-6

archaea, eucharya, bacteria

three domains of life

archaea and bacteria

prokaryotic

eukarya

eukaryotic

viruses

acellular

Bacteria

found in almost every environment, can be harmless or harmful, no nucleus, cell wall o peptidoglycan

coccus

spherical

bacillus

rod shaped

vibrio

curved

spirillum

thick and rigid spiral

spirochetes

flexible spirals

pleomorphic

multiple shapes

classifications of bacteria

nutrition, temperature, oxygen, pH, osmotic pressure, flagella, spore formation

Archaea

unicellular, pseudopeptidoglycan walls, extreme habitats

eukaryotes

protists, fungi, animals, plants

eukaryotic

HAS NUCLEUS

Algae

protist plant, cellulose walls, photosynthetic, unicellular or multicellular

Protozoa

mobile or non-mobile, photosynthetic, some feed on organic material, free-living or parasitic

mobile

cilia, flagella, pseudopodia

Fungi

not photosynthetic, chitin cell walls, yeasts, molds, decomposition

yeast

unicellular fungi

mold

multicellular fungi

Helminths

multicellular parasitic worms

viruses

intracellular parasites, have DNA OR RNA