GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY - T.P. Pyrog - 2004

18. PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Review questions for Chapter 18

1. Which Bacteria are capable of using light as an energy source?

2. Characterize the taxonomic position of anaerobic phototrophs in the ninth edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and in phylogenetic Classification.

3. What structural and metabolic features are characteristic of Purple and green phototrophic bacteria?

4. What is Photosynthesis? Where do the Primary processes of photosynthesis take place? Name the Components of the photochemical reaction center.

5. How does oxygenic photosynthesis occur? Why does it require the functioning of two photoreactions?

6. What are the roles of cyclic and non-Cyclic electron transport?

7. What is the Mechanism of ATP synthesis in the photosynthetic apparatus?

8. How does anoxygenic photosynthesis differ between purple and green bacteria, and why?

9. What are the differences between oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis?

10. How can halobacteria utilize light energy?



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