Bacteria
The science of classifying and naming organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The method used in the classification of protozoans.
What is type of locomotion?
The study of fungus.
What is mycology?
The three major groups of all plants.
What are nonvascular, vascular without seeds, vascular with seeds?
Organisms that do not have a dorsal notochord.
What is an invertebrate?
The three shapes found in bacteria.
What are coccus, bacillus, or spirillum?
Long, whip-like extension of the cellular membrane used in Euglenas and other unicellular organisms.
What is a flagella?
The primary beneficial characteristic of this kingdom.
What is decomposition?
The repetitive cycling of asexual and sexual reproduction.
What is alternation of generation?
Symmetry found in starfish and jellyfish.
What is radial symmetry?
Organisms that feed on dead or decaying material.
What are saprophytes?
Organisms that may be colonial or unicellular, eukaryotic, and primarily photosynthetic.
What are algae?
The intertwining of filaments of a fungi.
What are hyphae?
Ferns, horsetails, and club mosses.
What are vascular without seeds?
(bonus 100 points if Pterophyta)
Phylum that includes earthworms and leeches?
What is Annelida?
A nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.
What is a virus?
The type of asexual reproduction that occurs with the breaking of a colonial organism.
What is fragmentation?
The structure of a fungus that produces spores.
What are sporangia?
The main leafy part of the fern.
What is the frond?
Structure found in the phylum Mollusca used for filter feeding, movement, or excretion.
What is the siphon.
The type of asexual reproduction found in many unicellular organisms such as bacteria.
What is binary fission?
The method by which algae are classified.
What is their chlorophyll?
(color, shape)
Structures that function to anchor a fungus to the ground.
What are rhizoids?
The outermost layer of cells found in leaves and stems.
What is the epidermis?
Structures in an earthworm used to control blood pressure.
What are aortic arches?