Bacteria
What does it mean to say that bacteria are prokaryotic?
They do not have a nucleus.
What are long, whip-like hairs used for movement?
flagella
What are the animal-like Protists?
Protozoans
What are the long filament structures in fungi called?
hyphae
True or False, Most bacteria do not causes disease.
True
What is the kingdom that contains the most familiar true bacteria and cyanobacteria?
kingdom Eubacteria
What is the kingdom whose members live in extreme environments?
kingdom Archaebacteria.
Algae
What do the gills on a mushroom produce?
spores
Name an antibiotic produced by a fungus
Penicillin.
Which one of these does not belong and why?
coccus, flagellum, spirillum, bacillus
flagellum because it's a structure for movement in bacteria not the shape of the organisms like the other three.
Describe how paramecia (kingdom Protista) eat.
They use cilia to sweep food into their oral groove.
This type of asexual reproduction happens if a pond animal jumps onto a colony of Spirogyra (green algae).
Fragmentation.
What do all Fungi produce?
Spores.
Why are fungi and bacteria important in nature?
What is a rod-shaped bacterium?
bacillus
How do bacteria reproduce?
Binary Fission
What is a type of sexual reproduction in algae & protozoans where genetic material is exchanged
Conjugation.
What are spores used for in Fungi?
Reproduction.
What is a non-living nucleic acid covered by a protein coat called?
A virus.
Name at three foods that are produced with the help of bacteria?
yogurt, cheese, pickles, sauerkraut, kombucha, salami, etc.
Name three things that would prevent bacteria from taking over the earth.
lack of food, oxygen, proper temperature, unable to rid waste products.
What is the name of the foot-like structure that aids in movement of some Protists?
Pseudopod
An organism that is actually fungi and algae living together symbiotically.
Lichen.
How do viruses reproduce?
By forcing their host cells to make more viruses. They are non-living things that can't survive on their own!