Introduction to Biodiversity
Taxonomy & Classification
Kingdoms & Domains
Prokaryotes, Viruses, & Protists
Fungi, Plants, & Animals
100
Genetic variability that is found in a population of the same species.
What is genetic diversity?
100
True or false. When naming an organism the genus comes first then the species.
True.
100
The highest taxonomic level.
What is a domain?
100
The name of a rod-shaped bacterial cell.
What is a bacillus?
100
Lichen (relationship between cyanobacteria/green algae and fungi) is an example.
What is an example of a symbiotic relationship?
200
... is a group of organisms that have the ability to successfully reproduce a viable offspring (can survive and pass genetic information to next generation).
What is a species?
200
The father of taxonomy.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
200
Mushrooms, yeasts, and moulds are examples.
What is fungi?
200
True or false. Antibiotic crisis occurred because viruses adapted to the pressures from their environments and because of humans overuse of antibiotics.
False.
200
A waxy substance formed by the plant epidermis that covers leafs of plants that help it to be waterproof.
What is the cuticle?
300
Characteristics used to describe an organism's physical appearance that are shared among other organisms of that species.
What is morphology?
300
The classification system that identifies all organisms.
What is taxonomy?
300
The six kingdoms.
What does Eubacteria, Archaea, Protista, Fungi, Plants, and Animals refer to?
300
Salt-loving organisms that are mostly aerobic.
What are halophiles?
300
A chemical found, specifically, in fungal cell walls, as well as in the outer layer of insects and crustaceans.
What is chitin?
400
True or false. Species that reproduce asexually inherit unique characteristics and genetic diversity.
False.
400
The highest taxonomic level.
What is a kingdom?
400
They are autotrophs, photosynthetic, can reproduce sexually and asexually, eukaryotic, and have chloroplasts.
What are some characteristics of the plant kingdom?
400
The active part of the viral cycle that results in cell lysis and production of progeny viruses.
What is the lytic cycle?
400
True or false. The of the flower is to form pollen and/or ovules to reproduce.
True.
500
Commonly referred to organisms that require to feed on other living things (like plants) to survive.
What are heterotrophs?
500
A diagram that indicates the relatedness and ancestry among different species.
What is a phylogenic tree?
500
Unicellular organisms without membrane-bound organelles.
What are prokaryotes?
500
Circular pieces of DNA that has some genes that can carry some advantages to the cell.
What are plasmids?
500
Fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds are examples. Hint: they have spines!
What are vertebrates?