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Kingdoms Of Life: Monerans By: C Abry, Tudor Foote, and Billy Stone
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Introduction Welcome to the wonderful world of Monerans Monerans are Bacteria They make up more matter than all other living things on earth combined
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Structure Monerans have a flagellum, a cytoplasm membrane, cell wall, capsule, cytoplasm, genetic material, and a ribosome. The blue green bacteria cell has all the same traits except for: sheath, starch granule, and photosynthetic membrane. This membrane allows it to gain energy through photosynthesis. However they don’t have Flagellum. Monerans can come in single cells or grouped in colonies. Colonies are a group of cells that are attached. Colonies are different from multi-cellular organisms, because every cell in the colony live on there own, not depending on each other
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Shapes of Bacterial Cells The Cocci come in circular shapes that are often in chains or blobs. The average size is.5 to one micrometer. The Bacilli are shaped like rods and often come in strings. Their normal size is approximately.5 to 20 micrometers in length. The Spirochete comes in a spiral shape and also often are found in a chain. The average length is about 1 to 500 micrometers.
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Feeding Monerans that require oxygen for respiration are called obligate aerobes. Monerans that don’t require oxygen for respiration are called obligate anaerobes Facultative anaerobes can produce ATP with or without oxygen.
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Reproduction Binary Fission (Most reproduction done in this method) – DNA replicates – Membrane forms between them – Cell wall pinches into two cells Conjugation (Somewhat like sexual reproduction) – DNA replicates – Chromosome opens – Tube forms between it and another cell – The open chromosomes goes to other cell – Tube splits – In the new cell, chromosomes exchange pieces. – New cell divides into two new cells
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Reproduction continued Spores – Used by Bacteria to survive when conditions for growth are not present – First step is the DNA replicates – One set put in resistant but inactive cell – Once conditions improve becomes a active cell
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Major Phyla & Species Monerans are Bacteria More Bacteria matter in the world than all other living organisms combined Aerobic/Anaerobic Most known are the disease causing ones, but very few of them are actually harmful Types of structures as explained before
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Summary Monerans are Bacteria Single celled prokaryotes Feed many ways Binary Fission Monerans have a one in five chance of being the coolest Kingdom
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THE END ANY QUESTIONS?
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Additional feeding notes:Heterotrophic monerans can be saprobes (cause decay) parasites (feed off a host). Autotrophic monerans carry out photosynthesis or chemosynthesis (obtain energy from inorganic compounds. Additional structure notes: A reminder that all monerans are prokaryotic and very small. The diameter or length of bacteria cells are < 5 m
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