Summary: Environmental Microbiology & Biotechnology

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• 1 Week 1

• 1.1 Microbial ecology, habitats

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• What is important to understand in microbial ecology?

  Species richness and abundance, the activities of a microbial community, their effect on the abiotic environment and what happens in an ecosystem

• What is the ecological niche?

  The range of conditions needed for a species to maintain a stable population size

• What does species evenness express?

  The relative abundance of each species in a community

• What are microbial guilds?

  When microbial species use the same substrates in a similar way

• Why is the rhizosphere so dynamic?

  Plant roots are constantly interacting with the surrounding soil and microorganisms, changing the physical, chemical, and biological conditions around them.

• What does it mean that there is a high redundancy in soil?

  There are a lot of different microorganisms present that seem to have smiliar roles or functions

• How do organisms adapt to living in ocean water?

  A smaller cell size, a high affinity for transport systems and adaptation to high salt concentrations

• 1.2 Phylogeny and systematics

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• What is Haechel's classic phylogeny based on?

  The distinction between macroscopic and microscopic forms and multicellular and unicellular life

• What five kingdoms does Whittaker's scheme include?

  Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera

• What groups does Woese’s three domain model group all cellular life into?

  Archaea, bacteria and eukarya