{"id":1320,"date":"2017-01-18T22:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-biology2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1320"},"modified":"2017-03-02T21:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:23:35","slug":"putting-it-together-prokaryotes","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/chapter\/putting-it-together-prokaryotes\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: Prokaryotes","rendered":"Putting It Together: Prokaryotes"},"content":{"raw":"At the beginning of this lesson, we talked about a recent case of a superbug: a\u00a0strain of <em>Klebsiella<\/em>\u00a0that was resistant\u00a0to all twenty-six of the available antibiotics.\r\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\r\n<h3>Think about It<\/h3>\r\nCan you guess how\u00a0this strain of\u00a0<em>Klebsiella<\/em>\u00a0became\u00a0so resistant?\r\n\r\n[practice-area rows=\"4\"][\/practice-area]\r\n[reveal-answer q=\"863404\"]Show Our Thoughts[\/reveal-answer]\r\n[hidden-answer a=\"863404\"]These resistant bacteria are known as \"superbugs\": they result from the overuse of antibiotics. As more and more antibiotics are used, only the bacteria who can\u00a0survive the antibiotics survive, and they pass this resistance on to later generations. With this knowledge, we can guess that the bacteria originated from an area with particularly high antibiotic overuse. Bacteria can also share resistance genes across species lines, so antibiotic resistance in general increases, even if an antibiotic is only used on one or two species.[\/hidden-answer]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nRemember, prokaryotes represent a broad spectrum of organisms.\u00a0This video\u00a0teaches us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists (which we'll learn\u00a0about in the next module). They are by far the most abundant organisms on Earth, and are our oldest, oddest relatives.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/vAR47-g6tlA","rendered":"<p>At the beginning of this lesson, we talked about a recent case of a superbug: a\u00a0strain of <em>Klebsiella<\/em>\u00a0that was resistant\u00a0to all twenty-six of the available antibiotics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"textbox exercises\">\n<h3>Think about It<\/h3>\n<p>Can you guess how\u00a0this strain of\u00a0<em>Klebsiella<\/em>\u00a0became\u00a0so resistant?<\/p>\n<p><textarea aria-label=\"Your Answer\" rows=\"4\"><\/textarea><\/p>\n<div class=\"qa-wrapper\" style=\"display: block\"><span class=\"show-answer collapsed\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" data-target=\"q863404\">Show Our Thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"q863404\" class=\"hidden-answer\" style=\"display: none\">These resistant bacteria are known as &#8220;superbugs&#8221;: they result from the overuse of antibiotics. As more and more antibiotics are used, only the bacteria who can\u00a0survive the antibiotics survive, and they pass this resistance on to later generations. With this knowledge, we can guess that the bacteria originated from an area with particularly high antibiotic overuse. Bacteria can also share resistance genes across species lines, so antibiotic resistance in general increases, even if an antibiotic is only used on one or two species.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember, prokaryotes represent a broad spectrum of organisms.\u00a0This video\u00a0teaches us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists (which we&#8217;ll learn\u00a0about in the next module). They are by far the most abundant organisms on Earth, and are our oldest, oddest relatives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Old &amp; Odd: Archaea, Bacteria &amp; Protists - CrashCourse Biology #35\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vAR47-g6tlA?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1320\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Putting It Together: Prokaryotes. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Old &amp; Odd: Archaea, Bacteria &amp; Protists - CrashCourse Biology #35. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: CrashCourse. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vAR47-g6tlA\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/vAR47-g6tlA<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":10,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Putting It Together: Prokaryotes\",\"author\":\"Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"copyrighted_video\",\"description\":\"Old & Odd: Archaea, Bacteria & Protists - CrashCourse Biology #35\",\"author\":\"CrashCourse\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vAR47-g6tlA\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"arr\",\"license_terms\":\"Standard YouTube License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"3244001f-ff14-4a47-983d-debbbff4004f","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1320","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1195,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1320\/revisions\/3654"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1195"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1320\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-wmopen-biology2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}