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Mycoplasma genitalium is a small parasitic bacterium which lives on the ciliated epithelial cells of the primate genital and respiratory tracts. M. genitalium is the smallest known free-living bacterium, and the second-smallest bacterium after the recently-discovered endosymbiont Carsonella ruddii. Until the discovery of Nanoarchaeum in 2002, M. genitalium was also considered to be the organism with the smallest genome (aside from viruses). Mycoplasma genitalium. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ...
Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular, bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ...
Classes Bacilli Clostridia Mollicutes The Firmicutes are a division of bacteria, most of which have Gram-positive cell wall structure. ...
Orders Mycoplasmatales Entoplasmatales Anaeroplasmatales Acholeplasmatales The Mollicutes are an unusual group of bacteria distinguished by the absence of a cell wall; a cell wall is found in most other groups. ...
Genera Candidatus Hepatoplasma Mycoplasma Ureaplasma The Mycoplasmataceae are an order of Mollicutes, containing two recognised genera and one genera at the Candidatus state (yet to be formally recognised). ...
Genera Candidatus Hepatoplasma Mycoplasma Ureaplasma The Mycoplasmataceae are an order of Mollicutes, containing two recognised genera and one genera at the Candidatus state (yet to be formally recognised). ...
Species M. genitalium M. hominis M. pneumoniae etc. ...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...
A parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it. ...
cross-section of two cilia, showing 9+2 structure A cilium (plural cilia) is a fine projection from a eukaryotic cell that constantly beats in one direction. ...
In zootomy, epithelium is a tissue composed of a layer of cells. ...
Families 15, See classification A primate (L. prima, first) is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category including humans. ...
// In animal physiology, respiration is the transport of oxygen from the ambient air to the tissue cells and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction. ...
Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular, bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ...
An endosymbiont is any organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism, i. ...
Binomial name Candidatus Carsonella ruddii Synonyms Carsonella ruddii Candidatus Carsonella ruddii is an endosymbiotic Gamma Proteobacteria; it has the smallest genome of any characterised bacteria. ...
Binomial name Nanoarchaeum equitans Nanoarchaeum equitans is a species of tiny microbe, discovered in 2002 in a hydrothermal vent off the coast of Iceland by Karl Stetter. ...
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In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). ...
Groups I: dsDNA viruses II: ssDNA viruses III: dsRNA viruses IV: (+)ssRNA viruses V: (-)ssRNA viruses VI: ssRNA-RT viruses VII: dsDNA-RT viruses A virus is a microscopic particle (ranging in size from 20 - 300 nm) that can infect the cells of a biological organism. ...
Mycoplasma genitalium was originally isolated in 1980 from urethral specimens of of two male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis. Infection by M. genitalium seems fairly common, can be transmitted between partners during unprotected sexual intercourse, and can be treated with antibiotics; however, the organism's role in genital diseases is still unclear. Male anatomy Female anatomy In anatomy, the urethra is a tube which connects the urinary bladder to the outside of the body. ...
In biology, specimen is an individual animal or a plant or a microorganism that is used as a representative to study the properties of the whole population of that species. ...
Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) is an inflammation of the urethra which is not caused by gonorrheal infection. ...
It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ...
Staphylococcus aureus - Antibiotics test plate. ...
The genome of M. genitalium consists of approximately 580,000 base pairs, which are split into 74 fragments by the enzyme EcoRI. An initial study of the M. genitalium genome with random sequencing was performed by Peterson in 1993. It was then sequenced by Fraser and others (Science 270:397-403 (1995)). It was found to contain only 470 predicted coding regions, including genes required for DNA replication, transcription and translation, DNA repair, cellular transport, and energy metabolism. It was the second complete bacterial genome ever sequenced, after Haemophilus influenzae. The small genome of M. genitalium made it the organism of choice in The Minimal Genome Project, a study to find the smallest set of genetic material necessary to sustain life. In genetics, two nucleotides on opposite complementary DNA or RNA strands that are connected via hydrogen bonds are called a base pair (often abbreviated bp). ...
Ribbon diagram of the enzyme TIM, surrounded by the space-filling model of the protein. ...
In molecular biology, EcoRI (pronounced Eco R One) is a commonly used restriction enzyme. ...
For other meanings of this term, see gene (disambiguation). ...
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In genetics, transcription is the first of the two-step protein biosynthesis process. ...
Translation is the second process of protein biosynthesis (part of the overall process of gene expression). ...
DNA damage resulting in multiple broken chromosomes DNA repair refers to a collection of processes by which a cell identifies and corrects damage to the DNA molecules that encode its genome. ...
Bioenergetic may refer to: In biology: Biological thermodynamics, the study of energy transformation In psychology: Bioenergetic analysis, a type of body-oriented psychotherapy based on energy flows MeSH Bioenergetics Dictionary at eMedicine Bioenergetics Dorlands/Elsevier b_11/12185113 Category: ...
Binomial name Haemophilus influenzae (Lehmann & Neumann 1896) Winslow 1917 Haemophilus influenzae, formerly called Pfeiffers bacillus or Bacillus influenzae, is a non-motile Gram-negative coccobacillus first described in 1892 by Dr. Richard Pfeiffer during an influenza pandemic. ...
The Minimal Genome Project was a study headed by Craig Venter that attempted to find the smallest working set of genes necessary for an organism to live and reproduce successfully. ...
For other uses, see Life (disambiguation). ...
See Also
The Minimal Genome Project The Minimal Genome Project was a study headed by Craig Venter that attempted to find the smallest working set of genes necessary for an organism to live and reproduce successfully. ...
External links - Mycoplasma genitalium G-37 genome page
- Mycoplasma genitalium Reference Work at the UK Health Protection Agency
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