Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
• food
• fuel
• air
4 major categories
• bacteria
• fungi
• protists
• viruses
Pathogens
• produce carbohydrates
• break down starch into sugar
• convert sugars into alcohol
Water Dwelling microbes
• Yeasts
• Producers in wine making, bread
baking or beer brewing.
• Convert sugar to alcohol in
fermentation process
Cheese Making
• foods
• medicines
• vitamins
• leather processing
• textile production
Decomposers and Recyclers
• unicellular
Molds
• not cellular
• particles made up of nucleic
acid and protein
• Include short length of DNA or
RNA - never both!
Viruses
• energy sources
• basic elements to make and
replace cell structures
Heterotrophs
• live in soil
• use ammonia (NH4) as energy
hetero, chemo and phototrophs
• use energy from the environment
• light and heat energy from the sun
• energy stored in chemical bonds or
organic or inorganic compounds
Six major elements in cells
• C - Carbon
• H - Hydrogen
• N - Nitrogen
• O - Oxygen
• P - Phosphorus
• S - Sulfur
Also -
• K- potassium
• Ca - Calcium
• Fe - Iron
• Na - Sodium
Trace elements
• Co - Cobalt
• Zn - Zinc
• Mo - Molybdenum
• Cu - Copper
• Mn - Manganese
• Si - Silicon
hetero, chemo, and phototrophs