BIOLOGY 1B Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Photosynthesis, Oxygen, Bacteria
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Stromatolite -- layered rock that results from the activities of prokaryotes that bind thin films of sediment together. Biofilm -- a surface-coating colony of one or more species of prokaryotes that engage in metabolic cooperation. Prokaryotes -- lack membrane-enclosed nucleus and membrane-enclosed organelles; bacteria, archaea. Extremophile -- organism that lives in super extreme environmental conditions; halophiles salt lovers and thermophiles heat lovers . Thermophile -- organism that thrives in hot environments (often 60-80 degrees celsius or hotter) Halophile -- organism that lives in a highly saline environment such as the great salt lake or the dead sea. Methanogen -- organism that produces methane as a waste product of the way it obtains energy; archaea. Microbiome -- microorganisms in a particular environment trophic modes -- how organisms obtain energy and carbon; photoautotroph, photoheterotroph, chemoautotroph, chemoheterotroph. Photoautotroph -- organism that harnesses light energy to drive the synthesis to organic compounds from.
