PLEASE HELP ME SET THIS UP Treponema is the Medically Important Bacterial Genera

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Treponema is the Medically Important Bacterial Genera that needs to be explained.

We will imagine that some octogenarian, in her dotage, has decided to donate $50,000,000 to fund research into only one of those bacterial groups. In 3.5 minutes you will:

a) tell the important characteristics of that group which differentiate it from the rest (for example: Gram reaction, cell shape and arrangement, motility, oxygen requirements, etc).

b) describe in more detail the behavior of one or two bacterial members (species) of that group, particularly actions that have an impact (beneficial or detrimental) on human welfare.

c) convince the class that, in light of the crucial role that your organisms play in human welfare, you should receive the fifty million bucks to do research on that bacterial group (this will, of course, provide you with substantial personal monetary compensation as well).

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Treponemes are helically coiled organisms

They are about 6 to 15 m long and 0.1 to 0.2 m wide

They can be visualized by silver impregnation methods and dark foeld microscopy

Trepenoma pallidum exhibit rapid rotational movements along its longitudinal axis

They exhibit narrow optimal ranges of pH of 7.2 to 7.4 and temperature 30 to 37°C.

It is anaerobic and microphilic

They multiply by binary transverse fission

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