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What do most bacteria use for locomotion? What is their main mode of reproduction?
What is flagella And asexual reproduction?
Why do arthropods molt?
What is because their exoskeletons get too small for their growing bodies?
An organism is a single-celled, prokaryotic autotroph that lives in extremely hot environments. To what domain does it belong?
What is domain Archae?
Are the vast majority of animals vertebrates or invertebrates?
What is invertebrates?
What is the purpose of a fruit?
What is “it allows for dispersal of seeds away from the parent”?
If a flatworm has complex nervous and digestive systems, is it mostly free-living or parasitic?
What is free-living?
How do sponges get their prey?
What is by pumping water into themselves?
What kind of hair serves as insulation for a mammal?
If a jellyfish reproduces sexually, what form is it in?
What is Medusa form?
Name a pathogenic fungus and the malady that it causes.
What are rusts—crop damage, smuts—crop damage, ergot of rye—death, Cryphonectria parasitica—chestnut blight, Ophiostoma luminosity—Dutch elm disease, Synchytrium endobioticum—potato wart, Candida—thrush?
What is the difference between a vein and an artery?
What is the fact that arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood back to the heart?
If a virus uses DNA as its genetic material, is it alive? Why or why not?
What is not alive because it cannot reproduce on its own?
State the six characteristics that set birds apart from other vertebrates.
What are endothermic, heart with four chambers, toothless bill, oviparous, laying an amniotic egg that is covered in a lime-containing shell, covered with feathers, and skeleton composed of porous, lightweight bones?
What are the two differences between monocots and dicots?
Monocots: one cotyledon, leaf veins run parallel to midrib, vascular bundles are scattered in stem, root system is fibrous, or flower parts are multiples of 3.
Dicots: two cotyledons, leaf beings branch from midrib, vascular bundles for a ring in stem, root system is taproot, and flowers parts are multiples of 4 or 5.
Why don’t insects have respiratory systems?
What is a complex network of tracheas that allow air to travel throughout the body?
Vascular plants have two kinds of structures for the transport of water and nutrients
a. What are they called?
b. Of the two structures listed in part a, which must be made of living cells in order to be able to do their job?
a. What are xylem and phloem?
b. What is phloem?
Many biologists say that a mushroom is much like an iceberg, because only about 10% of an iceberg is visible from the surface of the ocean. What do they mean?
What is a small fraction of the total mushroom, because the mycelium(the part underground) is the largest component of the mushroom?
What four characteristics set insects apart from the other arthropods?
What are three pairs of walking/jumping legs, wings, three segments in the body, and one pair of antennae?
What are the four general characteristics of vertebrates?
What are endoskeleton, closed circulatory system, a nervous system with a lobed brain, and individual male and female sexes?
What are coccus, bacillus, and spirillum?
Name the classification groups in the classification scheme used in this course in order.
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
Name the five common characteristics among the arthropods.
What is exoskeleton, body segmentation, jointed appendages, open circulatory system, and a ventral nervous system?
Name two pathogenic organisms from the kingdom Protista.
What are Entamoeba histolytica, Tryphanosoma, Balantidium coli, Plasmodium, or Toxoplasma?
What roles do amebocytes play in the life of a sponge?
What is they help digest and transport nutrients, they help carry waste to be excreted, they bring necessary gasses such as oxygen to the cells, and they form the spicules or spongin?
Two plants are found:
a. The first plant produces seed cones and pollen cones. Is it vascular? To what group of plants does it belong?
b. The second plant produces flowers. Is it vascular? To what group of plants does it belong?
a. What is gymnosperms And vascular?
b. What is angiosperms and vascular?