MICR 2420 Study Guide - Final Guide: Attenuated Vaccine, Lynn Margulis, Nitrifying Bacteria

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Biogeochemical cycling a pathway by which a chemical substance moves through both biotic (biosphere) and abiotic (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) compartments of earth. An organism or virus too small to be seen with the unaided human eye. Winogradsky column a tube containing a strati ed environment that causes speci c microbes to. Cyanobacteria grow at particular levels; a type of enrichment culture for the growth of microbes from wetland environments. A community of microbes growing on a solid surface. A phylum of photoautotrophic bacteria containing chlorophylls a and b. An intimate association between different species in which one partner population grows within the body of another organism. Endosymbiosis theory the theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally free-living. Anaerobic respiration use of a molecule other than oxygen as the nal electron acceptor of an prokaryotes that formed an internal symbiosis with early eukaryotes. Devised techniques to study single species in isolation.