This negotiates what materials pass in and out of the cell
What is the plasma membrane?
100
A colony that uses holdfasts to anchor itself to an object.
What is a sessile colony?
100
The largest part of a mushroom (hint: mushrooms are a lot like icebergs).
What is mycelium?
100
The type of RNA that has anticodons.
What is tRNA?
100
A small, circular section of extra DNA that confers one or more traits to a bacterium and can be reproduced separately from the main bacterial genetic code.
What is a plasmid?
200
The phylum to which bacteria with no cell walls belongs to.
What is phylum Tenericutes?
200
The nucleus that is exclusively devoted to metabolism in ciliates.
What is the macronucleus?
200
The fungal genus that penicillin is extracted from.
What is Penicillium?
200
The part of mitosis where chromosomes are lined up on the equatorial plane.
What is metaphase?
200
A pigment necessary for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
300
The shape of a bacterium from genus Streptobacillus.
What is rod shaped (or bacillus)?
300
The location in an amoeba where the cytoplasm is thicker and less watery.
What is the center of an amoeba?
300
A specialized organelle designed to invade the cells of the host and draw nutrients from them.
What is the haustorium?
300
3/4 of these are useless in female meiosis.
What are gametes?
300
The anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules.
What is fermentation?
400
The phylum where gram negative bacterium are found.
What is phylum Gracilicutes?
400
If an organism doesn't have the ability to create ATP, what organelle is it missing?
What is the mitochondria (aka the powerhouse of the cell)?
400
This provides toughness and flexibility for a fungus.
What is chitin?
400
The phases of mitosis.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
400
A three-nucleotide base sequence on tRNA.
What is an anticodon?
500
The state in which a population does not change because individuals are being born as quickly as others are dying.
What is a steady state?
500
A phylum in which multicellular algae are found.
What is phylum Phaeophyta (or Rhodophyta)?
500
The location of the basidia on a basidiocarp mushroom.
What are the gills?
500
This is found in RNA instead of thymine in DNA.
What is uracil?
500
A hypha that is imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows.