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1
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Photosynthetic bacteria that may fix nitrogen from air.

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Cynobacteria

2
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Photosynthetic eukaryotes

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Algae

3
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Eukaryotes classified primarily by their means of locomotion.

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Protozoa

4
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Prokaryote’s whose call walls lack PTG and are often found in extreme environments.

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Archaea

5
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The set of criteria that prove that a specific microorganism is the cause of a specific disease

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Koch’s postulates

6
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The concept that living cells can arise only from other living cells

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Biogenesis

7
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Acc. To the rules applied to scientific naming of a biological organism, the ___ is always capitalized .

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Genus

8
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Anti microbial chemicals produced naturally by bacteria and fungi are called

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Antibiotics

9
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What is the glyco calyx made out of?

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Polysaccharides, polypeptide, or both

10
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Flagella - The basal body of gram negative is anchored to the _____ and ______

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Cell wall and plasma membrane

11
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Flagella - in gram posttiive it is anchored where?

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Only at the plasma membrane

12
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The moment to or from a stimulus

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Taxis

13
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The movement to or from a stimulus ( stimulus may be chemical or light )

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Chemotaxis or photo taxis