Gram Positives and heterogeneous members: Overall view of– ecological occurrence, morphological diversity, structural, metabolic and genetic diversity, their importance and classification of phyla Firmicutes – Actinobacteria – Bacteroidetes – Spirochetes – Tenericutes (Mollicutes) – Acidobacteria – Planctomycetes – Verrucomicrobia – Chlamydia.
Text Resources
To find out the difference between cyclic and non cyclic photophosphorylation click HERE
Books, Online study sources and literature Resources
To read about the interesting story of how Black sea was set in fire 1927 click HERE
Staley, J.T., Gonsalus, R.P., Lory S. and Perry J.J. (2007) Microbial Life. 2nd Edn. Sinauer Associates p.813.
Video Links
To look an interesting video related to observation of sulfur oxidizing bacteria click HERE
To look into a short type video about Purple sulfur bacterial location click HERE
To look into a short type video about Iron oxidizers click HERE
To know how Volta Experiment (to demonstrate Methane presence) is performed click HERE ; to see a Google doodle about Allesandro Volta click HERE
See how methane produced in a lake is trapped in the winter due to freezing, interestingly, that methane is used to prepare hot water in a temperate environment, click HERE
To see how a river is burning in Australia due to gas explosion in the river, as it near the fracking site, click HERE to see it .