Prokaryotes
What are facultative anaerobes?
Phylum of animal-like protists that swims using flagella.
What are zooflagellates?
Protists in this group have two flagella, no cell wall, and possess chloroplasts.
What are Euglenophytes?
Organisms that require a constant supply of oxygen in order to live.
What are obligate aerobes?
A method of reproduction in which a hollow bridge forms between 2 cells, and genes move from one cell to the other.
What is conjugation?
A method of controlling bacterial growth in which chemical solutions kill pathogenic bacteria.
What are disinfectants?
This group of protists uses pseudopods or "false feet" for feeding and movement.
What is Sarcodines?
What are Chrysophytes?
An organism known to cause disease.
What is a pathogen?
A method of asexual reproduction in which a prokaryote grows to nearly double its size, replicates DNA, and divides in half - producing 2 identical cells.
What is binary fission?
Two ways to identify prokaryotes.
What is shape?
What is movement?
What is chemical nature of cell walls?
Short hair like projections on this group are used for feeding and movement.
What are ciliates?
What are diatoms?
The way animal-like protists are classified.
What is their movement?
What is sterilization?
What is having a nucleus?
What is not having membrane bound organelles?
This group of animal-like protists does not move on its own and is parasitic.
What are sporozoans?
Half of the organisms in this group are photosynthetic, while the other half are heterotrophic.
What are dinoflagellates?
this disease is caused by an ameba
What is Amebic Dysentery?
The three cell shapes of bacteria.
What is bacilli (rod shaped)?
What is cocci (spherical shaped)?
What is spirilla (corkscrew shaped)?
Ways in which bacteria are important to humans.
What is food and beverage production?
What is removal of waste and poison from water?
What is synthesis of drugs and chemicals via genetic engineering?
What is production of vitamins in human intestines?
The role that animal-like protists play in the ecosystem.
What is recycle nutrients by breaking down dead organic matter?
What is providing oxygen via photosynthesis?
What is being the base of the aquatic food chain?
The method of determining what the cell walls of bacteria are made of.
What is gram staining?
Ways in which bacteria are important to the enivironment.
What is decomposes dead tissue?
What is digests petroleum in oil spills?