Prokaryotes: Bacteria and Archaea
Study Guide
This study guide provides students with an outline of the essential vocabulary, diagrams, and other concepts they need to know to be successful on an exam. A series of critical thinking questions will test their understanding, and a full list of vocabulary words will help them go back through their notes and pick out the important parts.
Essential concepts: Miller-urey apparatus, bacteria, archaea, prokaryotes, autotroph, heterotroph, aerobes, anaerobes, extremophiles, thermophiles, halophiles, methanogens, binary fission, exponential growth, coccus, bacillus, spirilla, flagella, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, decomposers, antibiotics.
