Prokaryotes: Bacteria and Archaea

Recall cards on prokaryotes: their diversity (prokaryotes as Earth's first cells, microbial mats and stromatolites, the oxygenation of the atmosphere, extremophiles, culturing and biofilms); the structure of Bacteria and Archaea (cell shapes, walls and membranes, the nucleoid and plasmids, reproduction and gene transfer, and the molecular differences between the two domains); prokaryotic metabolism (macronutrients, nutritional categories, and the nitrogen and carbon cycles); and bacterial diseases in humans (epidemics and pandemics, plague, typhoid, Lyme disease, foodborne illness, biofilms, and antibiotic resistance).