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What are the ways to get C(Carbon) from

Either in a:

  • Hetetroph: get it in an organic way by eating other organisms for their Carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids
  • Autotroph: get CO2 Out of the Air, or in a way where they don't relly of other organisms

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How much of the atmosphere is Nitrogen

79%

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What are the ways to get Nitrogen

  • Heterotroph: some bacteria and algae can Fix Nitrogen from NO3, NO2 or NH3
  • Get it from DNA, RNA and ATP

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Why does N need to be converted to NH3

So it can be combined with carbon to make amink acids

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Whats the importancy of O2 for microorganisms

  • Its a component of lipids, Carbohydrates, nucleic acids and protein
  • Its a component of organic salts , Sulfate(SO4), phosphate(PO4) , nitrates(NO3)
  • Essential for Metabolic and enzymatic and structural functions of a cell

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Whats the importancy of H2

  • Component in organic and inorganic compounds like water, salts and gases
  • Used and produced by microbes
  • Maintains pH
  • Used to form hydrogen bonds between molecules
  • Its a free energy in oxidation reduction reaction of respiration m

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Where can you get phosphorous

From Phosphoric acid H3PO4 found in rocks and oceanic deposits

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Whats the importancy of phosphorus

  • Components in Nucleic acids
  • Servers in energy transfer ATP

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Where to find sulfur

In environmental rocks that have sulfate(SO4), Sulfide(S2) and hydrogen sulfade(H2S)

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Whats the use of sulfate

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  • Components of some vitamins and amino acids like cysteine and methionine
  • Helps the stability of protein by forming disulfide bonds

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Whats the use of potassium K

Protein synthesis ajd membrane functio

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Whats the use of Sodium Na

Useful in cell transport

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Whats calcium used for

Cell wall and endoscpore stabilising Ca

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Whats magnesium used for Mg

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  • Component of chlorophyll
  • Used in membrane and ribosomes stabilising

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Whats iron used for Fe

Components of proteins and cell respiration

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Define Neutralphiles

Microbes live in neutral pH

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Define Obligate acidophiles

Microbes live in extreme acid pH

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Define Alkaliphiles

Microbes live in extreme alkaline pH

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Define psychrophilic

Microbes live in low temperature

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Define Mesophilic

Microbes live normal body temperature 37 which includes most pathogens

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Define Thermophilic

Microbes live in high temperature

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Define Aerobe

Use oxygen and can detoxify it

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Define obligate aerobe

Cannot grow without Oxygen

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Define Facultative Anaerobe

Use oxygen but are able to live without it

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Define Anaerobe

Don't use Oxygen

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Define obligate Anaerobe

Cannot live in oxygen environments because it Can't detoxify it

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Define aerotolerant Anaerobes

Microbes that don't use oxygen but can survive in an environment that have oxygen

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Define Capnophile

Microbes that grown best in CO2 environments

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Define Halophiles

Need high concentration of Salts

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Define Osmotolerant

Don't need high salt concentrated environments but can survive in it

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Define Osmophiles

Can grow in high sugar concentration environments

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Define Barophiles

Can handle extreme atmospheric pressure and will die in normal atmospheric pressure environment

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Name examples of passive transport

  1. Diffusion
  2. Osmosis
  3. Facilitated Diffusion

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Name examples of active transport

  1. Active transport
  2. Group translocation
  3. Bulk transport