Module 9
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
Digestion that takes place outside of a cell.
What is extracellular digestion?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
What is transpiration?
It is the conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
A non-cellular infectious agent that has two characteristics: (1) It has genetic material (RNA or DNA) inside a protective protein coat. (2) It cannot reproduce on its own.
What is a virus?
A temporary, foot-like extension of a cell, used for locomotion or engulfing food
What is a pseudopod?
"Naked seeds", such as pine cones and other conifers.
What are gymnosperms?
"carnivorous plants" that use insects for biosynthesis not food.
It is a life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form and a multicellular haploid form
What is alternation of generations?
Is the science that deals with the description, identification, naming, and classification of organisms.
What is taxonomy?
An indentation in one side of a ciliate that allows food to enter the cell.
What is a gullet?
a flower composed of many small flowers
What is a composite flower?
Nonliving vascular tissue that carries (transports) water and dissolved minerals from the roots of a plant to its leaves.
What is xylem?
A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating
What is a spore?
What most bacteria use for locomotion and their main mode of reproduction.
What is flagella and asexual reproduction?
A light-sensitive region in certain protists.
What is an eyespot?
Examples are mosses, liverworts, hornworts.
What are bryophytes?
It is tissue that supports young stems, roots, and petioles.
What is Collenchyma?
A temporary union of two organisms for the purpose of DNA transfer.
What is conjugation?
They are the three major bacterial cell shapes.
What are cocci, bacilli, and spirilla?
These are deadly sporozoan parasites that cause the disease malaria.
What is plasmodium?
A fertilization process that requires two sperm to fuse with two other cells.
What is double fertilization?
It is the breaking down complex molecules by the chemical addition of water.
What is hydrolysis?
A weakened or inactive version of a pathogen that stimulates the body's production of antibodies which can aid in destroying the pathogen.
What is a vaccine?