Structure Potpourri FINAL JEOPARDY! FINAL JEOPARDY! Relevance

Relevance for 100 What is pathology? Study of disease

Relevance for 200 What is the primary niche of bacteria in the biosphere? Decomposition

Relevance for 300 What is the reactant and product of nitrogen fixation? R: N 2 P: NH 3, NO 2, NO 3

Structure for 100 What outermost layer of some bacteria can help them hide from your immune system? Capsule

Structure for 200 Draw the following bacteria: Bacillus anthracis (Rod-shaped bacteria) MRSA (Bunches of spherical bacteria)

Structure for 300 In an oxygen-rich environment, a bacterium forms an endospore. What must be true of this bacterium? It’s Gram-positive It’s an obligate anaerobe

Potpourri for 100 Where might one find an inactive endotoxin? The outer membrane of a Gram- negative bacterium

Potpourri for 200 How is a facultative anaerobe different from other organisms? Oxygen concentration is irrelevant. It can live without oxygen gas, but is not harmed by it.

Potpourri for 300 Contrast the acquisition of DNA in conjugation and transduction. C: DNA is donated from another bacterium through a pilus. T: DNA is received from a virus that mistakenly picked it up from its previous host.

Of what are bacterial cell walls made? Peptidoglycan