Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences between the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences between the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
Characteristics of Bacteria
• Domains: Archae &
Bacteria
• Kingdoms: Archaebacteria
& Eubacteria
• Prokaryotic Cells: cells
without a defined nucleus
and cell organelles
• Unicellular Organisms
• Microorganisms
Cyanobacteria
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences between the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
• Monera formerly housed all bacteria, but now bacteria are
divided into two kingdoms: Archaebacteria and Eubacteria
Archae: harsh, hostile
environment
Habitat
Eubacteria: everywhere
Differences
Archae: no peptidoglycan
Cell Walls
DNA
Eubacteria: has
peptidoglycan
Archaebacteria is more like
the genetic sequence of
eukaryotes
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
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• 3 Hostile Environments
of Archaebacteria
• 1) Oxygen Free:
Marshes, Digestive
Tracts, Sewage
• 2) High Salt Content:
Dead Sea, Great Salt
Lakes
• 3) Hot Acidic Waters:
Sulfur Springs, Ocean
Vents
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences of the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
3 Ways Eubacteria Obtain Nutrients
From other organisms: parasites/saprophytes
Gets nutrients from dead or decaying organisms
Photosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
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• Gram Staining
• Helps identify the type
of bacteria by the
presence of
peptidoglycan in the
cell walls
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Gram Staining Results
Negative Results
Positive Results
Pink
Purple
No Peptidoglycan
Peptidoglycan
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
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Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Gram Staining Video
• Gram Staining Video
You will love this video. I
just know it!!!!
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences of the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
3 Basic Shapes
Cocci
(sphere)
Bacilli
(rod)
Spirilla
(spiral)
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences of the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences of the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
3 Growth Patterns
Diplo
(paired)
Staphylo
(grapes)
Strepto
(chain)
Live Bacteria Videos
Rowland Institute At Harvard
• Swarming E. Coli
• Swimming Synechococcus
• Swimming Rhodobacter
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
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Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?
Grows RAPIDLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Highest reproductive potential !!
Diplococcus
Streptococcus
Staphyococus
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Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction:
Binary Fission
Sexual Reproductive:
Conjugation ….chromosomes
are transferred through the
pilus
Conjugation Animation
2
1
3
Bacteria “Mix-Up”
Group 1
Map out a possible
sequence of events
predicting the spread of
pneumococcus, a
bacterium that causes
pneumonia, in a crowded
nursing home. Most of
the residents in the
nursing home are elderly
and their immune systems
are impaired. Consider all
the people that pass by
each day and who these
people interact with
outside their homes.
Group 2
Create a 3D model of the
three shapes of bacteria
AND the three bacterial
growth patterns.
Group 3
Calculate the rate a
bacterium cell replicates
AND create a poster
informing the public how
to avoid and prevent the
spread of bacterial
infections.
Archaebacteria & Eubacteria
EQ: What are the similarities and differences of the
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria Kingdoms?