Microbe Mission B/C

[The_Beast]

Most of my test have gone really into detail about the different sub classes of microbes. How do I study for this? Anyone else have this problem?

[SciBomb97]

Most of my test have gone really into detail about the different sub classes of microbes. How do I study for this? Anyone else have this problem?

What do you mean by "subclasses"?

[The_Beast]

Like the different phylums of parasitic worms or bacteria..

[You Know Who]

Like the different phylums of parasitic worms or bacteria..

yeah i guess, but wouldn't it be broader?

[SciBomb97]

Like the different phylums of parasitic worms or bacteria..

Could you possibly name a question you had on the test about that?

[Starapollo1]

Like the different phylums of parasitic worms or bacteria..

To be quite frank, I doubt you are really going to need to know the specific phylums for things, after all this is NOT an ID event. At the top of the rules you'll notice there are some possible specimens (Algae, Baker's yeast, Ciliates, Amoeba, etc) and that those should be the ONLY specimens. Thus if it was a phylum question pertaining to one of those... then perhaps it is an applicable question. otherwise, I think you can just role out those questions and focus more on what's in the rules.

Hope this helps!

[syo_astro]

Like the different phylums of parasitic worms or bacteria..

To be quite frank, I doubt you are really going to need to know the specific phylums for things, after all this is NOT an ID event. At the top of the rules you'll notice there are some possible specimens (Algae, Baker's yeast, Ciliates, Amoeba, etc) and that those should be the ONLY specimens. Thus if it was a phylum question pertaining to one of those... then perhaps it is an applicable question. otherwise, I think you can just role out those questions and focus more on what's in the rules.

Hope this helps!

The rules don't say that only those specimens can be asked about (or that they should be the only ones to be asked about). It says that those are possible live specimens. A coordinator, if they wanted to make the test really hard, could ask about different taxonomies of microbes since there is no part of the rules denying that. Also, questions could give high quality pictures it says some questions could revolve around that (ie. show a pic of a streptococcus, bacillus...). You almost definitely won't have to do any real ID (though, I almost always see questions relating to pictures), but knowing all the different phyla and whatnot about every microbe helps you prepare for microbe questions (though, you should obviously focus on everything and not just that). I think what you were saying was that despite the fact a test maker could make an insanely hard test if they wanted to, the rules outline the whole event enough so that most stick by what it says. But that's my interpretation (hopefully I am not misunderstanding).

I googled the both of them and put them on my sheet (well, I am trying to memorize all the things about them, but for now I have a chart saying nematodes, cestodes, etc and another saying proteobacteria, spirillum, etc...I know some of them, but I am just trying to make sure I know them/will try to get rid of it soon). I generally look at the first page or two, or I look in a textbook. I also hope this helped

[Rackis]

Does anyone know which kingdoms are currently in use for the classification of microbes? I've been looking at a lot of different sites and a lot of the information is either outdated or doesn't match other sites. There have been kingdom questions in the past, which is why I ask.

[SciBomb97]

Does anyone know which kingdoms are currently in use for the classification of microbes? I've been looking at a lot of different sites and a lot of the information is either outdated or doesn't match other sites. There have been kingdom questions in the past, which is why I ask.

Yeah, I wondered the same thing...my SO coach lent me this really nice biology textbook, except it was printed in 1999, so a few classification things were different.
The system currently in use is the six kingdon and three domain system, with the six kingdoms being archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. Archaebacteria belong to the domain Archaea, eubacteria belong to domain Bacteria, and the rest belong to domain Eukarya.
The old five kingdom system groups archaebacteria and eubacteria together as kingdom monera, and that's not correct. If you see something about monera, you probably want to avoid that site. The differences between archaebacteria and eubacteria may be topics on tests, and the differences are quite significant. For example, eubacteria cells have cell walls with peptidoglycan and archaebacteria cells have cell walls without peptidoglycan.
Hope that helps.

[Rackis]

Thanks! I've been seeing nonsense like Monera and one site even said Archaea was a subgroup of bacteria. Glad you cleared this up.