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Archaea Yeast-Are Mold-Is A Protozoa - Are Algal Cells Since Viruses Are A Cellular - They
Archaea Yeast-Are Mold-Is A Protozoa - Are Algal Cells Since Viruses Are A Cellular - They
BSED 3A
MICROBIAL WORLD
Assignment
Compare and contrast the following groups of microbes by filling in the table below. (30 pts.)
Archaebacteria/ Molds/Yeasts Protozoa Microscopic Algae Viruses
Eubacteria
1. Cellular Archaea Yeast- are Protozoa- are Algal cells Since viruses are a
Organization -are prokaryotes, which single-celled fungi. unicellular eukaryote -are eukaryotic and cellular- they
means that the cells Mold-is a s. contain three types of contain no cellular
don't have a nucleus or multicellular fungus. double-membrane- organelles, cannot
other membrane-bound It consists of bound organelles: the grow and divide, and
organelles in their cells. filaments called nucleus, the carry out no
Eubacteria-are hyphae that can chloroplast, and the independent
enclosed by a cell wall. bunch together into mitochondrion metabolism - they
The wall is made of structures called are considered
cross-linked chains of mycelia. neither prokaryotic
peptidoglycan, a nor eukaryotic.
polymer that combines
both amino acid and
sugar chains.
3. Distinguishing Archaea-are Molds-consist Protozoa-are unicell The algal cell. Algal Viruses-are much
Cellular prokaryotes, which of long, branching ular eukaryotic cells-are eukaryotic smaller than bacteria
Features/Structures means that the cells filaments of cells microorganisms and contain three and consist of
don't have a nucleus or called hyphae lacking a cell types of double- a single- or double-
other membrane-bound (singular, hypha). A wall and belonging membrane-bound stranded nucleic acid
organelles in their cells. tangled mass of to the Kingdom organelles: the (DNA or RNA)
Eubacteria or “true” hyphae visible to Protista. Protozoa nucleus, the surrounded by a
bacteria- are the unaided eye is reproduce asexually chloroplast, and the protein shell called a
unicellular, prokaryotic a mycelium (plural, by fission, mitochondrion. In capsid; some viruses
organisms. It has a mycelia). schizogony, or most algal cells there also have an outer
lipid-containing cell Yeast-contains budding. Some is only a single envelope composed
membrane made from almost the same protozoa can also nucleus, although of lipids and proteins.
glycerol ester lipids. organelles of a reproduce sexually. some cells are They vary in shape.
They are characterized mature eukaryotic Relatively few multinucleate. The two main
by a lack of a nuclear cell. Nucleus, Golgi protozoa cause classes are RNA
membrane, a single apparatus, disease. viruses and DNA
circular chromosome, mitochondria, viruses.
and cell walls made of endoplasmic
peptidoglycan. reticulum, vacuole,
and
cytoskeleton are
the most important
one.
4. Mode of Archaea-has no cell Molds-reproduce Protozoa Algae -are Viruses-has two
Reproduction nucleus, archaea do not by producing large -reproduce asexuall regenerate by sexual processes used by
reproduce via mitosis; numbers of small y by cell division reproduction, viruses to
rather, they procreate spores, which may producing two equal involving male and replicate: the lytic
using a process contain a single or sometimes female gametes (sex cycle and lysogenic
called binary fission. In nucleus or be unequal cells. The cells), by asexual cycle. Some viruses
this binary fission multinucleate. Mold cell division in reproduction, or by reproduce using both
process, archaeal DNA spores can certain protozoa is both ways. ... Many methods, while
replicates, and the two be asexual (the longitudinal, while in small algae others only use the
strands are pulled apart products of mitosis) others transverse. In reproduce asexually lytic cycle. In the lytic
as the cell grows. or sexual (the some protozoa by ordinary cell cycle, the virus
Eubacteria-are products of multiple fission or division or by attaches to the host
reproduced asexually b meiosis); many schizogamy is fragmentation, cell and injects its
y the methods of binary species can known to occur. whereas larger algae DNA.
fission, fragmentation, produce both types. Many protozoa also reproduce by spores.
budding, conodia Yeast-is asexual reproduce asexually
formation, endospore reproduction by by budding.
formation etc. budding, where a
small bud (also
known as a bleb or
daughter cell) is
formed on the
parent cell. The
nucleus of the
parent cell splits
into a daughter
nucleus and
migrates into the
daughter cell.