Taxo-nom-nom!
Infectious Personalities
(the bacterial and viral kind)
Flower Power
To Be or Not To Be.. (Vascular)
Fungus Among Us
100

The 8 classification groups in the classification scheme used in Apologia Biology, in order.

What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?

100

A virus uses DNA as its genetic material, but is not alive. This is the reason it is not considered alive.

What is because a virus cannot reproduce on its own?

100

The male reproductive organ of a flower and the female reproductive organ.

What are the stamen and the carpel?

100

This is the reason that bryophytes are so small.

What is because they have no vascular tissue?

100

Not to be confused with the fruiting body, which is usually most visible, this is actually the largest part of a mushroom.

What is the mycelium?

200

An organism is a single-celled, prokaryotic autotroph that lives in extremely hot environments and belongs to this domain.

What is Domain Archae?

200

The three common bacterial shapes. In their technical names, please. Hint: brush up on your Latin for spherical, rod-shaped and helical!

What are coccus, bacillus, and spirillum?

200

A botanist examines a portion of a plant and finds a lot of this type of tissue, which indicates that the plant is still growing.

What is meristematic tissue?

200

These two structures that transport water and nutrients in vascular plants.

What are the xylem and phloem?

200

You observe the mycelium of a fungus under a microscope and notice no distinct cell walls but several nuclei. The mycelium is composed of this.

What is nonseptate hyphae?

300

An organism is a multicellular decomposer made of eukaryotic cells and belongs to this domain and this kingdom.

What are Domain Eukarya and Kingdom Fungi?

300

Most bacteria use this for locomotion, while their mode of reproduction is by this means.

What are flagella and asexual reproduction?

300

This is typically on the underside of the leaf, usually making it a lighter shade of green due to the fact that the photosynthesis cells are not as tightly packed there.

What is the spongy mesophyll?

300

Of the two supporting structures in a vascular plant, this one must be made of living cells in order to be able to do their job.

What is the phloem?

300
​Rusts- crop damage, 
Smuts - crop damage, 
Ergot of rye - death, 
Cryphonectria parasitica - chesnut blight, Ophiostoma ulmi - Dutch elm disease, 
Synchytrium endobioticum - potato wart, 

Candida - thrush

What are pathogenic fungi and the malady that they cause?

400

Entamoeba histolytica, Trypanosoma, Balantidium coli, Plasmodium, and Toxoplasma are examples of these.

What are pathogenic organisms from Kingdom Protista?

400

Conjugation can significantly affect the growth of a population of bacteria, even though conjugation does not result in offspring. Conjugation uses a small strand of DNA called THIS to pass a trait from one bacterium to another. If the trait that is passed allows the bacteria to survive when they otherwise would not have, then conjugation will increase the population.

What is a plasmid?

400
This type of tree has an abscission layer.

What is deciduous?

400

Two plants are being observed. The first plant produces seed cones and pollen cones. The second plant produces flowers. They are both vascular, but belong to these two different groups of plants, in respective order.

What are gymnosperms and angiosperms?

400

The forming of this is a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and an alga. The alga produces food for both creatures via photosynthesis, and the fungus supports and protects the alga.

What is a lichen?

500

This phylum contains fungi that do not have a known mode of sexual reproduction.

What is Phylum Deuteromycota?

500

Sarcodina: pseudopods, 

Zooflagellates: flagella, 

Ciliophora: cilia

What is the means of locomotion employed by the organisms in phyla: Sarcodina, Zooflagellates, Ciliophora?

500

These top the list:

-cotyledons (one has one and the other has two)
-leaf veins (one runs parallel and the other ​branches), 
-vascular bundles (one is scattered and the other forms a ring in the stem), 
-r​oot system (one is fibrous and the other is taproot), 

-flower parts (one has multiples of 3 and the other has multiples of 4 or 5)

What are the differences in monocots and dicots?

500

The dominant generation in the moss life cycle and the dominant generation in the fern life cycle.

What are gameophyte generation and sporophyte generation?

500

The forming of this is a mutualistic relationships between a fungus’s mycelium and a plant’s root system. The mycelium takes nutrients from the root, while it collects minerals from the soil and gives it to the root.

What are Mycorrhizae?

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