Survey of Living Things

Three Domains of Life:

• Bacteria (Prokaryote): Mitocondrion, Green nonsulfur bacteria, Themologa, Chloroplast, Aquifex, etc.

• Archaea (Prokaryote): Pyrrolobus, Thermoplasma, Extreme Halophiles, Methano-bacterium, etc. 

• Eukarya: Animals, Fungi, Plants, Slime Molds, Flagellates, etc. 

Relative Size and Detection Devices:

• Human Eye: Human, Apple, Wasp, AntLight Microscope: Hair, Cell, Bacteria

• Electron Microscope: Virus, DNA, Small molecule, Atom, Electron orbital

Domain Bacteria:

• Prokaryotic

• Unicellular

• Must absorb food

• Identified by special structures, metabolic differences and shapes

• Found almost everywhere

• Benefits of Bacteria: Make up food, help us break down food, help create medicines, etc. 

• Bacilli (rod), Cocci (round), and Spirilli (spiral)

Domain Eukarya:

• Eukaryotic

• Unicellular or multicellular

• Modes of nutrition determine major groups

• Kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista