Vocabulary
Organisms
Concepts
Processes
Wild Card
100

These are classified as 'non cellular infectious agents'

What are viruses? 

100

These two groups are included in Domain Prokarya

What are 1) Archaea and 2) Bacteria? 

100

These viruses are adapted to infect only bacteria

What are bacteriophages?

100

This is formed through the process of breaking down dead, organic matter

What is detritus? 

100

These types of viruses store genetic information in the form of RNA

What are retroviruses?

200

This process refers to bursting of infected cells

What is lysis?

200

List two general characteristics of marine bacteria

What are 1) come in a variety of shapes, 2) cell wall is rigid, 3) normally are microscopic, and 4) are abundant in all marine environments? 

200

This type of virus can remain dormant in a host for year to decades and reproduces by inserting its DNA into the host's DNA and eventually bursting the infected cell

What are lysogenic viruses?

200

These are formed over billions of years by layers of cyanobacteria

What are stromatolites? 

200

These are the two major components of a virus

What are 1) nucleic acid core and 2) protein capsid?

300

These organisms are the most important Prokaryotes in the marine environment

What are cyanobacteria (would also accept stromatolites)?

300

List three general characteristics of Prokaryotes

What is 1) no membrane-bound organelles, 2) great metabolic diversity - heterotrophic, photoautotrophic, chemoautotrophic, 3) no nucleus around plasmid DNA, and 4) most have strong cell wall, flagella?

300

These are the general characteristics of prokaryotic organisms

What are 1) no nucleus, 2) no membrane-bound organelles, 3) single, circular chromosome, 4) unicellular, 5) great metabolic diversity? 

300

List the three major shapes that bacterial cells can take

What are 1) spherical, 2) spiral, and 3) rod-shaped?

300

These are bacteria-sized viruses that possess traits of both living cells and non-living infectious agents

What are mimiviruses (microbe-mimicking viruses)?

400

On the board, write the name of the dinoflagellates that live in symbiosis with reef corals (must spell correctly)

What are 'Zooxanthellae?' 

400

List four major characteristics of marine diatoms

What are 1) photosynthetic, 2) yellow-brown in color, 3) silica shell, 4) mostly solitary and unicellular, 5) MOST IMPORTANT PRIMARY PRODUCER ON PLANET EARTH, 6) mostly planktonic, 7) store excess energy as oil, 8) reproduce sexually and asexually, 9) some can produce toxins? 

400

List the three major types of viruses 

What is 1) lysogenic, 2) retrovirus, 3) bacteriophages? 

400

These two groups of organisms can go through rapid periods of growth called 'algal blooms'

What are 1) diatoms and 2) dinoflagellates? 

400

These are the two major groups of photosynthetic pigments used by diatoms

What are 1) fucoxanthins and 2) carotenoids?

500

List three characteristics of eukaryotic organisms

What is 1) unicellular and multicellular, 2) DNA contained in nucleus, 3) membrane-bound organelles, and 4) include both autotrophs and heterotrophs?

500

This is the major difference between photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs

What is 'photoautotrophs derive E from sunlight and chemoautotrophs derive E from chemicals (usually sulfur based)? 

500

This is why stromatolites are significant for understanding geologic history on earth

What is 'because they are considered living fossils and can date back billions of years so they can tell us a lot about the natural history and evolution of Earth?' 

500

Briefly explain how marine diatoms reproduce

What is 'diatoms reproduce asexually and each generation shrinks and gets progressively smaller until they reproduce sexually and this allows them to return to their full, normal size?' 

500

This is how scientists first learned to distinguish bacteria and archaea

What is 'by analyzing the chemistry of their cell walls?' 

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