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100
Why are fungi and bacteria important in the natural environment?

They are responsible for decomposing waste.

100

Which of the following terms, doesn't belong:
flagella, sprillium, coccus, bacillus

Flagella, the other 3 are shapes of bacteria.

100

What type of micro-organism is the cause of malaria?

A protozoan.
100

How do paramecia eat?

They use cilia to sweep food into their oral groove.

100

This is a nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.

What is a virus?

200

This is the term given to how bacteria reproduce asexually.

What is binary fission?

200

Explain how viruses reproduce.

By forcing their host cells to make more virus.
200

What cellular process do algae carry out that protists and fungi do not?

What is photosynthesis?

200

The type of bacteria that act as producers.

What is cyanobacteria?

200

This is the name of the kingdom that live in extreme environments.

What is Archaebacteria?

300

This is the term given to chemicals that the body produces to protect itself against viruses.

What are interferons?

300

What do all fungi produce (they are used for reproduction).

What are spores?

300

These are the animal-like protists.

What are protozoans?

300

These are long, whip-like hairs used for movement.

What are flagella?

300

These are short, hair-like projections.

What are cilia?

400

This is the name of the kingdom that contains true bacteria and cyanobacteria.

What is kingdom Eubacteria?

400

These are plant-like protists.

What are algae?

400

This is what happens when there is an overpopulation of dinoflagellates.

What is a "red tide"?

400

This is the way Spirogyra reproduce asexually.

What is fragmentation?

400

This is a type of sexual reproduction we studied this chapter and is observed in algae.

What is conjugation?

500

This is the term given to a rod-shaped bacteria.

What is bacillus?

500

This is the structure that amoebas use for movement.

What are pseudopods?

500

Most fungi are composed of long filaments that are given this name.

What is hyphae?

500

This is the term given to spherical bacteria.

What is coccus?

500

This is the term given when a virus remains inactive inside its host cell.

What is latent?

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