Kingdoms Fungi and Plantae
The transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the carpel in flowering plants.
What is pollination?
The way in which all fungi reproduce.
What is by making spores?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
What are omnivores?
An organism that eats primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
The founder of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel.
The name of the drug which comes from a useful imperfect fungi, that can kill harmful bacteria associated with many human sicknesses.
What is penicillin?
Living creatures of this kingdom do not neatly fit into the other three kingdoms: Fungi, Plantae or Animalia. They lack one of more of the characteristics that define the other kingdoms.
What are protists?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is taken from the air principally by respiration and is restored principally by photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
Crayfish: These parts aid in swimming as well as reproduction. They are larger for the male and smaller for the female. Females carry eggs and offspring on them.
What are swimmerets?
A plant that loses its leaves for the winter.
What is a deciduous plant?
Name three of the types of fungi we studied.
What are zygote fungi, sac fungi, club fungi or imperfect fungi.
The system of classifying organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The mighty organelles in a cell in which nutrients are converted to energy.
What are mitochondria?
Yes or no? It is acceptable to act silly during dissections?
What is NO!
In plants, a growth response to light.
What is phototropism?
A temporary, rootlike extension of a cell, used for locomotion or engulfing food.
What is a pseudopod?
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
What is a scientific law?
The jelly-like fluid inside a cell in which organelles are suspended.
What is cytoplasm?
The two letter set that represents the alleles an organism possesses for a certain trait.
What is genotype?
The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food.
What is the mycelium?
The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food.
What is the mycelium?
Name two of the four criteria for life.
1. All life forms contain DNA.
2. All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it to energy which sustains them.
3. All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.
4. All life forms reproduce.
The process by which certain gases (primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space.
What is the greenhouse effect?
In the earthworm, what is the name of the thin membranes that divided each segment?
What are septa?