BIO153H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chloroflexus Aurantiacus, Sulfolobus, Thermophile
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Term test information: write it in the section you are enrolled in. Covers lectures 2-8, chapters 22-24 basic understanding. Vibrio fichen: produces light and luminescent: produced by bacteria. In terms of diversity: there are over a 1000 new species just in the last decade. Bacteria and archaea are diverse: not only in numbers but also in the area they grow. Photosynthetic prokaryotes (for example, cyanobacteria); plants; certain protists (for example algae) Unique to certain aquatic and salt- loving prokaryotes (for example, rhodobacter, chloroflexus) Hetero means: different or other they rely on organic compounds produced by other organisms. Photo, organisms that depend on light, chemo organism that depend on chemical compounds for their energy source. These organisms have adapted to a huge range of environment. What causes this huge diversity in bacteria and archaea: a scientist took a sample from hot water with the organisms (extremely heated water) they inoculated with one of those and added a medium called fe3+
