Classification
This is the science of naming, identifying, and organizing living things into groups.
What is taxonomy?
This part of the microscope is where you place the slide.
What is the stage?
Unlike eukaryotic cells, bacteria do not have this membrane-bound organelle containing their DNA.
What is a nucleus?
bacteria are unicellular, plantae are multicellular and viruses are ____________?
What is acellular?
What is Plant like, Animal like and Fungi like?
The concept that looks at DNA and evolutionary history to determine which two organisms are the same species
What is phylogenetic species concept?
This is the maximum magnification we can see with our school microscopes
What is 400x?
This is the process by which one bacterial cell divides into two genetically identical cells.
What is binary fission?
Viruses must infect these in order to use their cellular machinery to make more viruses.
What is a host cell?
This is the type of protist that can be found in Florida fresh water and attacks and eats Human Brains
The word dichotomous comes from the Greek language meaning...
What is Two choices?
This lens is the one you look through and is commonly 10× magnification.
What is the eyepiece/ocular lens?
Bacteria can exchange DNA directly with another bacterium through this process, which can spread useful genes such as antibiotic resistance.
What is conjugation?
This protein structure surrounds and protects a virus’s genetic material.
What is a capsid?
A protist is unicellular, eukaryotic, and obtains energy by consuming other organisms. Based on these characteristics, it would be classified as this broad type of protist.
What is a protozoan?
What is chordata?
The best advice for being able to find the specimen under the microscope.
Why should you always start on low power?
The process where scientists use certain bacteria to break down oil after an environmental spill, helping remove the pollution from the ecosystem.
What is bioremediation?
This treatment uses viruses that specifically infect and destroy harmful bacteria, making it a potential alternative when bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotics.
What is phage therapy?
This is a type of Protista that has an eye spot and can use it's flagella to travel towards a light source to preform photosynthesis.
What is a Euglena?
The book that Carl Linnaeus contributed to throughout his life of classifying living things.
What is Systema Naturae?
This is the dye that we used to help see the nucleus in our cheek cells better
What is methylene blue?
the name for an extremophilic bacteria that thrives in very salty conditions
What is a halophile?
what is the unabbreviated name for the virus that attacks the immune system and can lead to AIDS if untreated.
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
the type of Protista that is responsible for malaria?
What is plasmodium?