How long have microbes been around for?

What is essential to sustain life?

What can all SPONCH do?

What did the Miller-Urey experiment show?

What was early earth like?

Molecules most likely to form where?

Explain coacervate growth and division

What two things formed the origin of life?

What was the first cell likely to have been like?

What is a possible metabolism of the first cell?

What changed the earths atmosphere

How do gradients and niches evolve organisms?

How was gradient and niches used with E.coli to demonstrate evolution?

What is biological classification of diversity?

Phenetic

Cladistic

Molecular clock

16srRNA why do we use it

How did mitochondria and chloroplasts become incorporated into eukaryotic cells?

What are bacteria and fungi responsible for in soil?

How many fungal species are described and how many are estimated to exsist

Decomposer

Absorptive nutrition

Mutualist fungi

What are the three types of fungal groups?

Fungal pathogens

How much bacteria is in a teaspoon of soil?

Photoautotroph

Chemoheterotroph

Heterotrophs

Lithotroph

Species

What defines a prokaryotic species?

How are pathogens put into species

DDH

DDH limitations

Modern versions of DDH

<50% binding value

Downsides of 16s rRNA comparison

MLST

MLSA

Pros and Cons MLSA

Ecotype

Metabolism

Anabolism

Catabolism

Macronutrient

micronutrient

Prosthetic groups

Coenzymes

Where is chemical energy stored?

Where does energy originally come from?

How much energy yields from one glucose molecule?

Anaerobic respiration

Aerobic respiration

Photophosphorylation

Chemolithotrophy

How are amino acids and nucleotides synthesised?

Great plate count anomaly

The more diverse an environment is the more the microscope and the cultures differ

What do we know from the great plate count anomaly?

Enrichment bias

PCR methods

The rare biosphere

Number of genes that have a role that can be clearly identified is...

Biological dark matter

Metagenomic

Metagenomic

Transcriptome

Proteomics

Metabolomics