Biological Diversity: Taxonomy and Oxygen Acquisition

diversity 1

What are the characteristics of Gram-positive bacteria?

thick

purple

no membrane

in mammals

teichoic increase flexibility

no endotoxins

What are the characteristics of Gram-negative bacteria?

thin

pink

membrane

has endotoxins bc of LPS

How does the genome differ in eukaryotic, prokaryotic (archaea) and and prokaryotic (bacteria)

eukary - multiple long linear chromosomes dna in nucleus

proakry- single short and circular dna and contains plasmids

Transcription location of eukaryotes and prokaryotes

eukary - nucleus

prokary - cytomplasm

Translation location of eukaryotes and prokaryotes?

cell membrane for all

where are histone and introns for eukaryotes and prokaryotes?

only in eukaryotes and archaea

Cell wall for eukaryotes

plant- cellulose

fungi- chitin

Cell wall of prokary archaea?

pseudomurein

Cell wall of prokary bacteria?

peptidoglycan

Which has organelles?

only eukaryotes

Which has ribosomes?

all have ribosomes