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Both E. coli and the mollicutes are chemoheterotrophs. What is one difference in terms of growth features between these two types?

True/False. Photoautotrophs use carbon dioxide for their source of carbon, but chemoautotrophs do not.

You are studying a novel species of Archaea that can be found in ocean sediments and you find that it has a generation time of 75 minutes, using binary fission to divide. If you start with a population of 1000 cells in a culture, how many cells will there be after 5 hours of incubation? Show your work or explain your answer.  

Bacteria and archaea have multiple possible methods of cell division/growth. Make the best match between the  the methods of cell division and the features associated with cell division. Each feature is used only once.

Streptococcus thermophilus is a thermophile. What would happen to the cell membrane if a culture of this bacterium was moved from a temperature of 65˚C to a temperature of 25˚C?

You are studying a novel species of Eukarya that can be found in ocean sediments and you find that it has a generation time of 45 minutes, dividing by binary fission. If you start with a population of 200 cells in a culture, how many cells will there be after 3 hours of incubation? Show your work or explain your answer. 

Many bacteria and archaea can fix nitrogen. This process produces [answer1] from [answer2]. This process is a(n) [answer3] of the nitrogen.

Fatty acids are found in the cell membranes of eukaryotes, but not in the cell membranes of Bacteria or Archaea.

True/False. Regarding capsules, they are typically composed of polysaccharides.

True/False. Regarding pili, cells typically have one pilus per cell.