The Diversity of Life
The classification of organisms that lack nuclei and membrane-bound organelles.
What are prokaryotes?
They contain a nucleus and are composed of 1 cell.
What is a single-celled eukaryote?
The material that makes up a fungal cell wall.
What is chitin?
A long appendage that moves in a "S" shape to facilitate bacterial locomotion.
What is flagella?
A world-wide spread of disease, and a board game.
What is a pandemic?
The 3 domains of life.
What are Eukarya, Bacteria, and Archaea?
3 groups of protists.
What are plant-like protists, animal-like protists , and fungi-like protists?
The number of nuclei per cell fungi may have when fusing hyphae from 2 different fungal organisms.
What is 2?
Asexual reproduction for prokaryotes.
What is binary fission?
A protein molecule that recognizes and attaches to host cells.
What is a spike?
The first and second word of Carolus Linneaus' binomial nomenclature system.
What are genus and species?
The green pigment used by plant-like protists to convert sunlight into food.
What is chlorophyll?
Mutualism.
What is the type of relationship in which both organisms benefit from each other?
The 3 types of bacterial shapes.
What are spherical, rod-shaped, and spiral shapes?
Methods of controlling the spread of viral diseases.
What are quarantine, immunization, mass education, and early and aggressive treatment?
The 6 Kingdoms of life.
What are Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Eubacteria, Archaebacteria?
The method of eating by animal-like protists.
What is phagocytosis?
A thread like network of long hyphae cells.
What is mycelium?
What is a small circular, double-stranded DNA molecule found in the cytoplasm of a cell?
A process of producing immunity in which the affected is resistant to viral disease and does not spread the virus.
What is inoculation?
Organisms with the ability to produce their own food.
What are autotrophs? (e.g. plants, protists, bacteria, archaea)
A form of fungi-like protist reproduction.
What is spore formation?
The sporangium.
What is the reproductive stalk-like structure of fungi in charge of storing and producing spores?
Conjugation
What is the process of transferring genetic information to other cells through the pilus and replication of the plasmid?
The life cycle of a virus.
What is the process of absorption, penetration, envelope uncoating, protein synthesis and assembly, and release?