Viruses/Bacteria
Three basic shapes of bacteria.
What are rod (bacillus), Sphere (coccus) and Spiral (spirillum)?
What makes all protists eukaryotic.
Eukaryotic or prokaryotic?
What is fungi are eukaryotes?
Name two ways that fungi help people.
What are provide food, decompose/recycle, and fight disease (antibiotics), help plants grow better?
A nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.
What is a virus?
Bacteria that photosynthesize.
What are cyanobacteria?
Protists that live together, but could live independently.
What is a colony?
Role of fungi (and bacteria) in the environment.
What is decomposer?
Name two ways fungi are harmful to people/the environment.
What is they cause disease in plants and they cause disease in humans (athlete’s foot, ringworm, valley fever)?
Protists are divided into these three categories based on characteristics they share with organisms in other kingdoms..
What are animal-like, plantlike, and funguslike?
How viruses reproduce.
What is by hijacking a host cell?
Three structures that help protists move.
What are cilia, flagella and pseudopods?
Threadlike structures of fungi.
What are hyphae?
Name the two organisms that make up a lichen.
What are a fungus and either algae or autotrophic bacteria?
Why bacteria won’t overtake the earth even though they grow exponentially.
What is limiting factors - oxygen, food, waste buildup?
What makes bacteria prokaryotic.
What is they lack membrane-bound organelles?
Two functions of cilia in Paramecium.
What are movement and sweeping food into mouth pore?
Fungal reproductive structure (how they reproduce).
What are spores?
Organism that gets its nutrition from dead things.
What is a saprophyte?
How bacteria reproduce.
What is binary fission?
Two kingdoms of prokaryotic organisms.
What is Archaebacteria and Eubacteria?
What is amoeba and pseudopods?
Symbiotic relationship between plant roots and fungi.
What is mycorrhizae?
What decomposition does for the environment (food web).
What is it returns nutrients to the food chain?
Type of organism that causes malaria.
What is a protist (Plasmodium)?