Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Cyanobacteria contain Chlorophyll a in addition to photosystem I and II. Therefore, they are able to perform oxygenic photosynthesis. The shape, size, reproduction, mobility, and growth vary widely when compared with other photosynthetic organisms. Most of the Cyanobacteria are obligate photolithotrophs.

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Ch. 21.3 - In what ways are members of Aquifex and Thermotoga...Ch. 21.3 - Prob. 2RIACh. 21.3 - Design an experiment designed to explore the role...Ch. 21.3 - Explain the relationship between genome size and...Ch. 21.4 - Why do you think NH3 is converted to the amino...Ch. 21.4 - Which of the phototrophs discussed perform...Ch. 21.4 - Prob. 1.2RIACh. 21.4 - Compare the capacity of green nonsulfur...Ch. 21.4 - Prob. 2.1RIACh. 21.4 - Prob. 2.2RIA
Ch. 21.4 - Prob. 2.3RIACh. 21.4 - Describe how a vegetative cell, a heterocyst, and...Ch. 21.4 - Prob. 2.5RIACh. 21.4 - Prob. 2.6RIACh. 21.5 - Prob. 1MICh. 21.7 - Prob. 1MICh. 21.7 - Prob. 1RIACh. 21.7 - Prob. 2RIACh. 21.7 - Prob. 3RIACh. 21.7 - Prob. 4RIACh. 21.7 - What might have been some of the culture...Ch. 21.9 - How would you test whether or not Gld proteins are...Ch. 21.9 - Prob. 1RIACh. 21.9 - Prob. 2RIACh. 21.9 - Prob. 3RIACh. 21.9 - Prob. 4RIACh. 21.9 - Why are cytophagas ecologically important?Ch. 21 - The cyanobacterium Anabaena grows well in liquid...Ch. 21 - Compare the structural and functional differences...Ch. 21 - Prob. 3CHICh. 21 - Some believe that an ancient planctomycete evolved...Ch. 21 - Prob. 5CHICh. 21 - In 2014 a team of Chinese and Czech...
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