bacteria
121phototrophic bacteria — noun green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon • Syn: ↑phototropic bacteria • Hypernyms: ↑eubacteria, ↑eubacterium, ↑true bacteria • Hyponyms: ↑ …
122Coliform bacteria — Not to be confused with Coliiformes. Escherichia coli Coliform bacteria are a commonly used bacterial indicator of sanitary quality of foods and water. They are defined as rod shaped Gram negative non spore forming bacteria which can ferment… …
123Sulfur-reducing bacteria — get their energy by reducing elemental sulfur to hydrogen sulfide. They couple this reaction with the oxidation of acetate, succinate or other organic compounds.Several types of bacteria and many non methanogenic archaea can reduce sulfur.Some… …
124Luminescent bacteria — emit light as the result of a chemical reaction during which chemical energy is converted to light energy. Luminescent bacteria exist as symbiotic organisms carried within a larger organism, such as many deep sea organisms, including the Lantern… …
125Indicator bacteria — Each gram of human feces contains approximately 12 billion (12*109) bacteria, among them may include pathogenic bacteria, such as Salmonella , associated with gastroenteritis. In addition, feces may contain pathogenic viruses, protozoa and… …
126purple bacteria — noun free living Gram negative pink to purplish brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll • Hypernyms: ↑phototrophic bacteria, ↑phototropic bacteria * * * a group of Gram negative pink to purplish brown bacteria, comprising the purple sulfur… …
127International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria — The International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria ( ICNB ) governs the scientific names for bacteria. As such it is one of the Nomenclature Codes. Originally the botanical Code dealt with bacteria, and this kept references to bacteria until 1975 …
128Ice-minus bacteria — is a nickname given to a variant of the common bacterium Pseudomonas syringae ( P. syringae ). This strain of P. syringae lacks the ability to produce a certain surface protein, usually found on wild type ice plus P. syringae . The ice plus… …
