What were the earliest forms of life on Earth?What was the energy source for the earliest form of life on earth?What are the earliest records of life on Earth?What is able to grow and thrive under conditions that would kill most other organisms (high/low pH, etc)?What are psychrophiles?Describe radioresistant prokaryotes and their habitat preferences.Who developed postulates to identify disease-causing organisms?What percent of bacteria and archaea cannot be cultured?Describe the viable-but-not-culturable state of prokaryotes.Describe planktonic prokaryotes.Why do biofilms form?What holds biofilms together?Structure of ProkaryotesDescribe the nucleoid.Describe conjugation.What happens during binary fission?What are cell walls of prokaryotes primarily composed of?What structure of Archaea is different from other domains of life?What is the Bacteria division into two groups based on?Prokaryotic MetabolismWhich macronutrient is required for the synthesis of nucleotides and phospholipids?What micronutrient is used as an enzyme cofactor by some prokaryotes?What element represents 12% of the dry weight of cells and is a major component of proteins and nucleic acids?Where do photoautotrophs obtain their energy from? What is their source of carbon?What process captures inorganic carbon in the form of organic compounds?Which metabolic strategy would be common in extremophiles?What is the most important biological contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?What do prokaryotes produce as part of a separate carbon cycle that eventually connects with the main,atmospheric-based, carbon cycle In anoxic sediments in aqueous environments?What is the largest reservoir of available carbon in terrestrial ecosystems?What carries out much of the recycling of nitrogen from organic compounds?What is ammonification?Why is nitrification necessary for plants?Bacterial Diseases in HumansWhat caused the Plague of Athens?What caused the disease known as the Black Death?What are the majority of recently emerging infectious diseases caused by?What is botulism associated with?What are biofilms are responsible for many foodborne illnesses?What are most modern cases of foodborne illnesses linked to?What does an overuse of antibiotics result in?What is an increasingly dangerous strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria? What is one of the main concerns with antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria and their exchange?Beneficial ProkaryotesWhat performs biological nitrogen fixation?What are the most important nitrogen fixers in aquatic systems?In terrestrial systems, most nitrogen fixation involves what plant?What is the oldest example of using prokaryotes to make food?What are prokaryotes used for in the processing of milk?How long have cultured milk products existed?Describe bacterial bioremediation.Identify one of the most successful applications of bioremediation.What is microbial bioremediation not particularly effective at cleaning?It has recently been discovered that microbial species appear to play a particularly strong role in what humansystem?What are fecal transplants being studied for?What do some of our microbiota produce for us?Module 5: ProtistsCharacteristics of ProtistsDescribe most protists (Eukaryotic or prokaryotic? Microscopic or macro? Unicellular or multicellular? etc).What are pellicles?What are pseudopodia (structural) and what are they used for? What organisms have them?What protest organism uses cilia to move?Define phototaxis.What are mixotrophs able to do?How do saprobes obtain food?How do amoebas ingest food?How do true slime molds reproduce?What do protists often do when they encounter environmental stress?How do cysts help protists survive?What proportion of protists are aquatic?Groups of ProtistsIdentify the characteristics unique to these groups, and examples:oExcavataoDiplomonadsoParabasalidsoEuglenazoansoChromalveolataWhat are hydrogenosomes?What organism is the cause of African sleeping sickness? What type of protist is it?The ancestor of which protist likely engulfed a photosynthetic red algae that had already engulfed aphotosynthetic prokaryote? What is this event called?Which group of chromalveolates are characterized by a membrane-bound sac just below the cell membrane thatlikely functions in osmoregulation?

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What were the earliest forms of life on Earth?What was the energy source for the earliest form of life on earth?What are the earliest records of life on Earth?What is able to grow and thrive under conditions that would kill most other organisms (high/low pH, etc)?What are psychrophiles?Describe radioresistant prokaryotes and their habitat preferences.Who developed postulates to identify disease-causing organisms?What percent of bacteria and archaea cannot be cultured?Describe the viable-but-not-culturable state of prokaryotes.Describe planktonic prokaryotes.Why do biofilms form?What holds biofilms together?Structure of ProkaryotesDescribe the nucleoid.Describe conjugation.What happens during binary fission?What are cell walls of prokaryotes primarily composed of?What structure of Archaea is different from other domains of life?What is the Bacteria division into two groups based on?Prokaryotic MetabolismWhich macronutrient is required for the synthesis of nucleotides and phospholipids?What micronutrient is used as an enzyme cofactor by some prokaryotes?What element represents 12% of the dry weight of cells and is a major component of proteins and nucleic acids?Where do photoautotrophs obtain their energy from? What is their source of carbon?What process captures inorganic carbon in the form of organic compounds?Which metabolic strategy would be common in extremophiles?What is the most important biological contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?What do prokaryotes produce as part of a separate carbon cycle that eventually connects with the main,atmospheric-based, carbon cycle In anoxic sediments in aqueous environments?What is the largest reservoir of available carbon in terrestrial ecosystems?What carries out much of the recycling of nitrogen from organic compounds?What is ammonification?Why is nitrification necessary for plants?Bacterial Diseases in HumansWhat caused the Plague of Athens?What caused the disease known as the Black Death?What are the majority of recently emerging infectious diseases caused by?What is botulism associated with?What are biofilms are responsible for many foodborne illnesses?What are most modern cases of foodborne illnesses linked to?What does an overuse of antibiotics result in?What is an increasingly dangerous strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria?  What is one of the main concerns with antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria and their exchange?Beneficial ProkaryotesWhat performs biological nitrogen fixation?What are the most important nitrogen fixers in aquatic systems?In terrestrial systems, most nitrogen fixation involves what plant?What is the oldest example of using prokaryotes to make food?What are prokaryotes used for in the processing of milk?How long have cultured milk products existed?Describe bacterial bioremediation.Identify one of the most successful applications of bioremediation.What is microbial bioremediation not particularly effective at cleaning?It has recently been discovered that microbial species appear to play a particularly strong role in what humansystem?What are fecal transplants being studied for?What do some of our microbiota produce for us?Module 5: ProtistsCharacteristics of ProtistsDescribe most protists (Eukaryotic or prokaryotic? Microscopic or macro? Unicellular or multicellular? etc).What are pellicles?What are pseudopodia (structural) and what are they used for? What organisms have them?What protest organism uses cilia to move?Define phototaxis.What are mixotrophs able to do?How do saprobes obtain food?How do amoebas ingest food?How do true slime molds reproduce?What do protists often do when they encounter environmental stress?How do cysts help protists survive?What proportion of protists are aquatic?Groups of ProtistsIdentify the characteristics unique to these groups, and examples:oExcavataoDiplomonadsoParabasalidsoEuglenazoansoChromalveolataWhat are hydrogenosomes?What organism is the cause of African sleeping sickness? What type of protist is it?The ancestor of which protist likely engulfed a photosynthetic red algae that had already engulfed aphotosynthetic prokaryote? What is this event called?Which group of chromalveolates are characterized by a membrane-bound sac just below the cell membrane thatlikely functions in osmoregulation?

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prokaryotes were the earliest life forms on earth and used carbon compounds for their fuel

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What were the earliest forms of life on Earth?  What was the energy source for the earliest form of life on earth?