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Unit 1: Prokaryotes / Bacteria
1. What are the 3 domains?
2. What are 4 characteristics of Archae domain?
3. Where do you typically find them?
4. What are 4 characteristics of Bacteria domain?
5. Where do you typically find them?
6. What is the most significant difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
7. What are 4 characteristics of prokaryotes/bacteria?
8. How do bacteria communicate?
9. How does this work?
10. When would bacteria do this?
11. What determines cell shapes of bacteria?
12. What are the 3 types of bacterial cell shapes?
13. What are the characteristics of these bacteria shapes?
Shape
Description
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14. How are the cocci bacteria arrangements, like staph, strept, tetrad, determined?
15. What is the cell wall made of in bacteria?
16. What is the glycocalyx and what is its purpose?
17. What is the difference between a slime layer and capsule glycocalyx?
18. What are endospores?
19. What is the function of an endospore?
20. What are the 3 appendages bacteria can have?
21. What are the differences between Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria? (think what the cell
wall is primarily made of and the thickness, and what color they stain)
22. In addition to cell morphology (bacteria shape), what are the other 4 ways they are further
classified?
23. What is a species?
24. What is a strain /variety?
25. What is a type?