Eukaryotes, Prokaryotes, and Viruses

9/13/01


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Table of Contents

Eukaryotes, Prokaryotes, and Viruses

Cells:

Cells

Viruses:

Viruses

Viruses

Viruses

T Bacteriophage

The tree of life

Prokaryotes:

Eubacteria:

Eubacteria

Cyanobacteria

Fossil Cyanobacteria

Spirochetes

Archaebacteria:

Thermophiles in a hot spring

Thermophiles in a hot spring

Archaebacteria provide food for tube worms

Streptococcus grows in chains

Staphylococci grow in clusters

Bacilli are rods

Spirilla

Helicobacter pylori

Some cells are pleiomorphic

Cell Membrane

Cell Membrane

Storage Granules

Ribosomes

Nucleic acids

Peptidoglycan Layer

Outer Membrane

Cell wall

Lipopolysaccharide

Lipopolysaccharide

External Cell Structures

Capsule

Flagella

Flagella

Fimbriae

Fimbrae

Pili

Run and Tumble

Spores

Cytoplasm

Nucleoid

Ribosomes

Penicillin interferes with peptidoglycan synthesis

Identification of Gram-Positive and Gram Negative Cells

N-acetyl glucosamine

N-acetyl glucosamine

N-acetyl muramic acid

Author: Charles Jacobs

Email: cjacobs@hfcc.net

Home Page: http://sciweb.hfcc.net/biology/jacobs/main.html