BIO 1130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gram Staining, Redox, Antimicrobial Resistance

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

A reaction that needs oxygen to be completed or an organism that needs oxygen to survive. This was not able to be done until the cyanobacteria built the oxygenated atmosphere. Either an organism or reaction that does not need oxygen to survive, or an environment without oxygen. They use electron acceptors other than oxygen, such as nitrate or sulphate. The domain of prokaryote organisms which include extremophiles. Unicellular prokaryotes distinguished by cell walls made of polysaccharides not found in bacterial or eukaryiotic cell walls, plasma membranes with unique phospholipids (with isoprene) and ribosomes and rna polymerase similar to eukaryotes. This name was also used in the past for the organisms during the archaean era (oldest precambrian fossils). Archaea live in virtually every known place and known for extreme conditions, examples are methanogens, halophiles (salt loving), thermophiles. Large protein inside the inner mitochondrial and thylakoid membranes that synthesizes atp.