Module 1:
The Study of Life
The Study of Life
The names of the kingdoms.
What are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia?
Another name for Monera.
What is Prokaryota?
A temporary, foot-like extension of a cell, used for locomotion or engulfing food.
A hypha that is imbedded in the material on which the fungus grows.
What is Rhizoid hypha?
A collection of atoms that all have the same number of protons.
What is Element?
A unit of one or more populations of individuals that can reproduce under normal conditions, produce fertile offspring, and are reproductively isolated from other such units.
What is Species?
An organism that causes disease.
What is Pathogen?
A membrane-bounded “sac” within a cell.
What is Vacuole?
A hypha that is not imbedded in the material upon which the fungus grows.
What is aerial hypha?
Chemicals that result from atoms linking together.
What are Molecules?
The science of classifying organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The bacteria that is an organism that feeds on dead matter.
What is Saprophyte?
The four major phyla in the subkingdom Protozoa.
What are Mastigophora, Sarcodina, Ciliophora, and Sporozoa.
Three of the six phyla of the Kingdom Fungi.
Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Zygomycota, Chytridiomycota, Deuteromycota, and Myxomycota.
The random motion of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
Cells come into these two basic types.
What are prokaryotic and eukarytoic?
An organism that requires oxygen.
What is an aerobic organism?
The body of a plant-like organism that is not divided into leaves, roots, or stems.
What is Thallus?
This useful imperfect fungi was accidentally discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming in which in a blue mold there was a substance that was killing bacteria.
What is Penicillin?
This gives you the type and number of atoms in the molecule, but it also tells you which atoms are linked to which.
What is the structural formula of a molecule?
The multi-level (hierarchical) biological classification system (scheme).
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
The DNA and other essential parts of a bacterium coated with several hard layers.
What is Endospore?
A unique type of algae, mostly because their cell walls are composed of silicon dioxide which is the principal component of glass.
What is Diatoms?
The anaerobic breakdown of sugars into smaller molecules.
What is Fermentation?
This disaccharide is formed when glucose and fructose chemically react in a process known as dehydration reaction.
What is sucrose?