Micro Lab nutrtions
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 photoautotrophs | Energy from light to reduce CO2 |
| Autotrophs | organisms that make their own food |
| Examples of Photoautotrophs | Green and purple sulfur bacteria Cyanobacteria Algae |
| Chemoautotrophs | autotrophs that obtain energy from oxidation of inorganic molecules |
| chemoautotrophs | Iron, hydrogen, sulfur, and nitrifying bacteria |
| Heterotrophs | Consumers |
| Photoheterotrophs | Energy from light |
| Exampls of photoheterotrophs | Purple and green non-sulfur bacteria |
| Chemoheterotrophs | Energy from organic compounds |
| Examples of chemoheterotrophs | Most bacteria all protozoans, fungi, animals |
| Carbon requirements | Make all organic compounds(cell material) CHO polymerized to polysaccharides a.a polymerized into protiens nucleic acids into DNA/RNA |
| Nitrogen requirements | biosynthesis of proteins(made of a.a) amino acids(amino group) Nucelotides(nitrogenase bases) |
| Main source of Nitrogen | aquired from almost all from ammonia(NH3) Some get nitrate from NO3- |
| Phosphorous used for | Nucelotides(phosphate group while polymerized) ATP(tri-phosphate) Cell walls |
| Sufur used for anabolism of | Amino acids cysteine and methionine |
| Calcium used for | endospore stability |
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