Classification, The Scientific Method
Name the four kingdoms in the Eukarya Domain.
Animal, Plant, Fungi, Protist.
A prokaryote is a simple, mostly single-celled (unicellular) organism that lacks a _______.
Nucleus
name three foods that use fungi to make
bread, beer, some cheese, kombucha, soy sauce, etc
All plants are autotrophic and use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar in a process called _______.
photosynthesis
How many dogs and cats do I have and what are their names
Two of each. Tennyson, Cwen, Calliope, Captain
A condition in a research study that causes an effect on a dependent variable.
An Independent Variable.
Cells of animals, plants, fungi, and protists are all _______.
Eukaryotic
A certain kind of bacteria lives in the intestines of humans and many other animals. The human cannot digest all of the food that it eats. The bacteria eat the food that the human cannot digest and partially digest it, allowing the human to finish the job. The bacteria benefit by getting food, and the human benefits by being able to digest the food it eats. What kind of ecological relationship is this?
mutualism
In flowering plants, female gametes are produced in the ovule. Male gametes are contained within ______.
pollen granules
T/F In general bacteria are much smaller than most viruses.
False. Most viruses are much much smaller than bacteria and some virus are small enough to infect bacteria.
a category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus, comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of interbreeding, and being designated by a binomial that consists of the name of a genus followed by a Latin or latinized uncapitalized noun or adjective agreeing grammatically with the genus name
species
Separates the interior of the cell from the outside environment and regulates the transport of materials entering and exiting the cell.
Cell Membrane
T/F less than one percent of bacteria types are pathogenic and harmful to humans
True!
a classification of plant that has a vascular system (root, stem, leaves) and seeds that can be found in flowers.
angiosperm
Soil has four basic components. Water, air, minerals that come from rock that has been broken down over time by wind, water, and chemical processes, and organic matter made up of _______.
Decaying plant and animal matter.
fill in the blank based on the pattern of organisation:
atom-->molecule-->element/compound
cell-->?-->?
tissue, organ
In this reproductive process an organism duplicates its genetic material, or DNA, and then divides into two parts, with each new organism receiving one copy of DNA.
binary fission
An organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources, mainly plant or animal matter.
heterotroph
Complete this mollecular formula:
6CO2 + 6H2O → _______ + 6O2
C6H12O6
Early life-forms on Earth may have been able to generate metabolic energy from sunlight using a ________-pigmented molecule called retinal that possibly predates the evolution of chlorophyll and photosynthesis.
purple
describe at least four of the seven characteristics of life.
Environmental responses, cells, change and growth, reproduction, having complex chemistry, and homeostasis and energy processing.
Londoners in the 1800s thought the disease cholera was spread by "bad air’ or ‘bad smells’ from rotting organic matter they called miasmas. A doctor named John Snow used a mapping system to demonstration that the disease was actually being spread how?
A water pump that had been contaminated by sewage.
A hairlike structure capable of whiplike lashing movements that furnish locomotion.
A Flagellum.
____ tissue transports water and nutrients from the roots to different parts of the plant. _______ tissue transports photosynthetically prepared food materials from the leaves to different parts of the plant.
Xylem. Phloem.
A classic example of desertification in the US caused by a combination of economic depression, extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion.
The Dust Bowl