Welcome to the Classification
of your favorite bacterium!

 

  Domain:                   Bacteria                                                The organism is a bacterium because it is prokaryotic. That means it does not have a nucleus or membraned organelles. It is also characterized by its cell wall chemical composition.

  Kingdom:                  Bacteria                                                The organism is a bacterium because it is prokaryotic. That means it does not have a nucleus or membraned organelles. It is also characterized by its cell wall chemical composition.

  Phylum:                    Actinobacteria                                      The organism belongs to the phylum of the actinobacteria because it is a gram-positive organism (G+C gram positive )

  Class:                        Actinobacteriae                                    The organism belongs to the class of the actinobacteriae because it is a fungi like bacteria.

  Order:                       Actinomycetales                                   The organism belongs to the order of the actinomycetales because it forms filaments called hypha, which gives the bacterium a cocci shape. There is a production of spores and mycelium (one mycelia is composed of numerous hypha).

  Family:                      Streptomycetacea                                 The organism belongs to the family of the streptomycetacea because it is characterized by the formation of specialized sporophores called conidia, reproductive structures located at the end of the hypha which bears the spores. Aerial mycelium forms chains of at least 3 spores. The bacteria that belong to this family are nonacid-alcohol fast actimomycetes.

  Genus:                        Streptomyces                                       The organism belongs to the genus of the Streptomyces because its pH tolerance is from 5 to 11.5 on a scale of 14. This genus is also known for its use in the elaboration of antibiotic, and has 66 to 73% of G+C content of DNA per mole.

  Species:                      Streptomyces Platensis                        The organism belongs to the species of the Streptomyces platensis because it is used to produce platensimycin to fight against other bacteria and pladienolides to inhibit the growth of cancer.