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Leptospira interrogans is a Gram negative, obligate aerobe spirochete, with periplasmic flagella.
When viewed through a light microscope, it often resembles a question mark, and this gives the
species its name. It is a member of the genus Leptospira. Some important pathogenic serovars from
this species are Canicola, Icterohaemorrhagiae and Australis. L. interrogans is difficult to culture,
requiring special media and extended incubation periods.
Bacillus anthracis is the etiologic agent of anthrax—a common disease of livestock and,
occasionally, of humans—and the only obligatepathogen within the genus Bacillus.[1] B. anthracis is
a Gram-positive, endospore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium, with a width of 1.0–1.2 µmand a length
of 3–5 µm.[1] It can be grown in an ordinary nutrient medium under aerobic or anaerobic conditions.
Structure of Euglenoids: (i) Euglenoids are unicellular flagellate protists. They are without
cellulose cell wall. ... (ii) The euglenoids have two flagella, usually one long and one short.
A heterotroph Ancient Greek = “other” plus trophe = "nutrition") is an organism that cannot produce
its own food, relying instead on the intake of nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly
plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are secondary and tertiary
consumers. Ninety-five percent or more of all types of living organisms are heterotrophic, including
all animals and fungi and some bacteria and protists. The term heterotroph arose in microbiology in
1946 as part of a classification of microorganisms based on their type of nutrition. The term is now
used in many fields, such as ecology in describing the food chain.
Fungus, plural fungi, any of about 99,000 known species of organisms of the kingdom Fungi,
which includes the yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms. There are also many
funguslike organisms, including slime molds and oomycetes (water molds), that do not belong to
kingdom Fungi but are often called fungi. Many of these funguslike organisms are included in
the kingdom Chromista. Fungi are among the most widely distributed organisms on Earth and
are of great environmental and medical importance. Many fungi are free-living in soil or water;
others form parasitic or symbiotic relationships with plants or animals.
The definition of archaebacteria are primitive bacteria microorganisms that have one cell and
live in environments that are severe, such as those that are extremely salty or hot. An example
of archaebacteria are methanogens
The next level of classification is kingdoms, and Bacteria is the only kingdom under the
domainEubacteria. Eubacteria/bacteria are prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are organisms that lack a
nucleus and other cell parts, and are less complex organisms. ...Eubacteria/bacteria are able to
get energy from a wide range of sources.
Definition of protist. : any of a diverse taxonomic group and especially a kingdom
(Protista synonym Protoctista) of eukaryotic organisms that are unicellular and sometimes
colonial or less often multicellular and that typically include the protozoans, most algae, and
often some fungi (such as slime molds)