Proteobacteria Members Thrive in Soils and Occur at High Concentrations

question 47

Essay

Proteobacteria members thrive in soils and occur at high concentrations as well. Other bacterial taxa are considered much less diverse in terms of their metabolic capabilities. Due to the role isolation has in discovering metabolic pathways, consider how obtaining hundreds of new isolates from a less studied phylum might change our views on metabolic diversity. Predict how the results of discovering another highly metabolically diverse group might be handled in terms of taxonomic assignment.

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Definitions:

Proximal Stimulus

The energies from the outside world that directly reach our sense organs.

British Empiricism

A philosophical viewpoint that emphasizes the role of sensory experience in the formation of ideas, stating that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.

Tabula Rasa

A theory suggesting that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and all knowledge comes from experience or perception.

Innate

Something that is present from birth, not learned or acquired through experience.