Project in Biology

MODULE 9
“DIVERSITY AMONG
MICROORGANISMS”

Submitted by: Ana Gizelle P. Edaño

Ma. Angel Kharen Rose S. Ronato

Submitted to: Ms. Karen Mojica

MODULE 9
DIVERSITY AMONG MICROORGANISMS

I. OBJECTIVES

a.) Cite structural and functional characteristics that are used

as basis for classifying microorganisms;
b.) Give the distinguishing characteristics of bacteria, protists
and fungi;
c.) Discuss how life began and how the primitive forms of life
eventually evolved into more complex types of organisms;
and
d.) Identify some of the beneficial and harmful effects of
microorganisms to mankind

II. KEY CONCEPT

Microorganisms’ are a divorced group of living things because

they belong to three different kingdoms of life, namely, Monera,
Protoctista and Fungi. Monerans share general characteristics
that include the following; they are unicellular and
prokaryotic and they reproduce asexually by binary fission.
Endosymbiosis of living together of two organisms where one
lives inside the other is because to be the major event that lead
to the evolution of eukaryotic cells from prokaryotic cells.
Chloroplasts and Mitochondria of eukaryotic cells may have
been the photosynthetic and aerobically respiring bacterial
endosymbionts of primitive prokaryotic cells. Protoctists have
only one unique characteristics in common; they are simple
eukaryotic organisms. Kingdom Protoctista includes the
animal-like Mastigobionta (protozoans), the plantlike
 Phycobionta (algae) and the fungus like Myxobionta, (slime
molds, water molds and chytrids). Ancestral Protozoans are
believed to have given rise to the earliest members of Kingdom
Animalia, ancestral algae to Kingdom Plantae and ancestral
chytrids to Kingdom Fungi. Kingdom Fungi have the following
general characteristics; they are the heterotrophic eukaryotes
generally multicellular with cell walls made largely of chitin.
Viruses are considered acecullar and non-living because they
lack metabolic and biosynthetic machineries. They are
parasites that come alive only when inside a living host.
Microorganisms may also harmful because of their disease-
causing ability in plants, animals and man.

III. PRE-TEST

Identification: Write the correct answer on the space provided.

1. It is called as the spherical bacteria.

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2. It is called as the rod tube bacteria.
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3. It is called as the sphiral bacteria.
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4. It is called as the true- bacteria.
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5. It is a bacteria found at milk.
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IV. POST TEST

 Identification: Write the answer in each number.

1. It consist about 17-47 phyla of largely unrelated organisms.

2. It is called as the earliest eukaryoles.

3. It is the parasitic protoctist that lives inside the body of the

host.

4. It is the parasitic protoctists the lives only on the body

surface of the host.

5. It is the plant-like protoctists.

6. It is the fungus-like protoctists.

7. It is a complex carbohydrate that is process into gulaman.

8. It is a member of zoomastigophora.

9. These are protozoan that move about by means of numerous

hair-like cilia.

10. It is the descending hyphae.

V. ACTIVITY
 Label the parts of bacteria.

VI. ANSWER KEY.

 Pre-test
1. Cocci
2. Bacilli
3. Sphrilla
4. Eubacteria
5. Lactobacillus

Post Test
1. Kingdom
protoctista
2. Bacteria
3. Endoparasites
4. Ectoparasites
5. Protozoa
6. Algae
7. Agar
8. Flagellates
9. Ciliates
10. Rhizoid