Bacteria

Bacteria (ⁱ/bækˈtɪəriə/; singular: bacterium) constitute a muckle domain or kinrick o prokaryotic microorganisms. teepically a few micrometres in lenth, bacteria hae a wide range o shapes, rangin frae spheres tae rods an spirals. Bacteria inhabit sile, watter, acidic het springs, radioactive waste,^[4] an the deep portions o Yird's crust. Bacteria an aa live in plants, ainimals (see symbiosis), an hae flourished in manned space vehicles.^[5]

Bacteria Temporal range: Archean or earlier – present Had'n Archean Proterozoic Pha.
Scannin electron micrograph o Escherichia coli rods
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990[1]
Phyla[2]
Gram positive / na ooter membrane Actinobacteria (heich-G+C) Firmicutes (law-G+C) Tenericutes (na waw) Gram negative / outer membrane present Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Fibrobacteres–Chlorobi (FCB group) Deinococcus-Thermus Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Planctomycetes–Verrucomicrobia/Chlamydiae (PVC group) Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Synergistetes Unkent / ungrouped Acidobacteria Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Dictyoglomi Thermodesulfobacteria Thermotogae
Synonyms
Eubacteria Woese & Fox, 1977[3]