Bacteria Vocabulary Quiz

Unicellular organisms that lack a nucleus

• prokaryote

• bacilli

• chemoautotroph

• obligate anaerobe

rod-shaped prokaryotes

• spirilla

• bacilli

• cocci

• facultative anaerobe

spherical prokaryotes

• bacilli

• spirilla

• cocci

• chemoautotrophs

corkscrew-shaped prokaryotes

• bacillus

• spirilla

• cocci

• chemoheterotrophs

prokaryotes that must take in organic molecules for energy and carbon

• photoheterotrophs

• chemoheterotrophs

• photoautotrophs

• chemoautotrophs

prokaryotes that make organic carbon molecules from carbon dioxide

• photoautotrophs

• chemoautotrophs

• photoheterotrophs

• chemoheterotrophs

Organisms that require a constant supply of oxygen

• obligate aerobes

• obligate anaerobes

• facultative anaerobes

• chemoheterotrophs

bacteria that must live in the absence of oxygen

• obligate aerobes

• obligate anaerobes

• facultative anaerobes

• chemoheterotrophs

bacteria that can survive with or without oxygen

• obligate aerobes

• obligate anaerobes

• facultative anaerobes

• chemoheterotrophs

method of bacterial reproduction in which two identical daughter cells are produced

• binary fission

• conjugation

• endospore

• nitrogen fixation