Plants
What photosynthetic green algae are considered the closest living relatives of modern land plants?
Charophytes
What collective term is used for nonvascular seedless plants, such as mosses, liverworts, and hornworts?
Bryophytes
Why did prokaryotic organisms go undiscovered for so long?
Their small size
What 2 domains do prokaryotes fall into?
Bacteria and Archaea
What are the microscopic pores on plant leaf surfaces that open and close to regulate gas exchange and moisture retention?
Stomata
Which dominant stage in the life cycle of ferns and club mosses is diploid (2n)?
Sporophyte
What technology allows us to see microbes?
microscope
How does genetic recombination occur in prokaryotes?
Which vascular tissue is composed of living cells that convey sugars and photosynthesized nutrients throughout the plant?
Phloem
Seedless plants like mosses and ferns require water for fertilization because their sperm cells are:
Flagellated
Who is the father of microbiology?
Antwon Van Leeuwenhoek
which domain are protists classified into?
Eukarya
What are the growth-producing regions of active cell division located at the tips of roots and shoots called?
Apical meristems
What valuable fossil fuel was formed over millions of years from dead seedless plant material in ancient Carboniferous swamp forests?
coal
1. All organisms with a sickness must also have the microbe, while all healthy individuals must not
2. The microbe must be isolated from a sick organism
3. The microbe must then be able to infect a healthy individual
4. The microbe must then be able to be re-isolated from the new individual
Name the three horizontal gene transfer possibilities bacteria can undergo
conjugation
transduction
transformation
In the plant life cycle (alternation of generations), what is the haploid (1n) generation that produces gametes by mitosis?
Gametophyte
Which specific group of bryophytes lacks stomata entirely, requiring very moist habitats to prevent drying out?
Liverworts
What percentage of prokaryotes cause disease
less than 1%
Name a way prokaryotes are useful
carbon cycling, decomposers, food production, nitrogen fixation, bioremediation (cleaning up oil spills), symbiosis, biofactories (produce chemicals), bioenhancement - adds nutrients to encourage growth of certain microbes