archaebacteria
[复] n.[微]原始细菌( 一种不同于细菌和动植物细胞且要求完全厌氧条件并能产生甲烷的微生物)
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Archaea
Fossil range: Archean - Recent
Halobacteria sp. strain NRC-1, each cell about 5 μm in length.
Scientific classificationDomain:Archaea
Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990PhylaCrenarchaeota
Euryarchaeota
Korarchaeota
Nanoarchaeota
ARMAN
The Archaea (AmE [ɑɹˈkiə], BrE [ɑːˈkiə]), or archaebacteria, are a major group of microorganisms. Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms that lack nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes, classified in kingdom Monera in the traditional five-kingdom taxonomy. Although there is still uncertainty in the phylogeny, Archaea, Eukaryota and Bacteria are the fundamental classifications of what is called the three-domain system. Although their prokaryotic features are diagnostic of that clade, archaea are more closely related to eukaryotes than to bacteria. To account for this, archaeans and eukaryotes are grouped together in the clade Neomura, which is thought to have arisen from gram-positive bacteria. Archaea were originally described in extreme environments, but have since been found in all habitats and may contribute up to 20% of total biomass.[1]
A single individual or species from this domain is called an archaeon,[2] while the adjectival form is archaeal or archaean. The etymology is Greek, from αρχαία meaning "ancient ones".
eubacteria真细菌
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Bacteria
Fossil range: Archean or earlier - Recent
Escherichia coli cells magnified 25,000 times
Scientific classificationDomain:Bacteria
PhylaActinobacteria
Aquificae
Chlamydiae
Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi
Chloroflexi
Chrysiogenetes
Cyanobacteria
Deferribacteres
Deinococcus-Thermus
Dictyoglomi
Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria
Firmicutes
Fusobacteria
Gemmatimonadetes
Lentisphaerae
Nitrospirae
Planctomycetes
Proteobacteria
Spirochaetes
Thermodesulfobacteria
Thermomicrobia
Thermotogae
Verrucomicrobia
Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, individual bacteria have a wide-range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods to spirals. Bacteria are ubiquitous in every habitat on Earth, growing in soil, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste,[1] seawater, and deep in the Earth's crust. There are typically 40 million bacterial cells in a gram of soil and a million bacterial cells in a millilitre of fresh water; in all, there are approximately five nonillion (5×1030) bacteria in the world.[2] Bacteria are vital in recycling nutrients, and many important steps in nutrient cycles depend on bacteria, such as the fixation of nitrogen from the atmosphere. However, most of these bacteria have not been characterised, and only about half of the phyla of bacteria have species that can be cultured in the laboratory.[3] The study of bacteria is known as bacteriology, a branch of microbiology.
There are approximately 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells in the human body, with large numbers of bacteria on the skin and in the digestive tract.[4] Although the vast majority of these bacteria are rendered harmless or beneficial by the protective effects of the immune system, a few pathogenic bacteria cause infectious diseases, including cholera, syphilis, anthrax, leprosy and bubonic plague. The most common fatal bacterial diseases are respiratory infections, with tuberculosis alone killing about 2 million people a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.[5] In developed countries, antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and in various agricultural processes, so antibiotic resistance is becoming common. In industry, bacteria are important in processes such as wastewater treatment, the production of cheese and yoghurt, and the manufacture of antibiotics and other chemicals.[6]
Bacteria are prokaryotes. Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes, bacterial cells do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles. Although the term bacteria traditionally included all prokaryotes, the scientific classification changed after the discovery in the 1990s that prokaryotic life consists of two very different groups of organisms that evolved independently from an ancient common ancestor. These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and Archaea.[7]
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