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Bacteria, Fungi, Protists 1
The History of Classification
History of Life & Evolution
Intro to Animal
Bacteria, Fungi, Protist 2
100
What is a coffee drinking machine?
Mr. Tefft
100
What is grouping of objects or information based on a set of criteria?
classification
100
The death of all individuals of a species.
Extinction
100
Animal with an endoskeleton
Vertebrate
100
An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead organisms, recycling nutrients back into food webs
Decomposer
200
Unicellular, heterotroph, animal-like protists
Protozoan
200
What is based on a series of choices between alternate characteristics?
A dichotomous key
200
The process by which a breeder develops a plane or animal to have certain traits
Selective Breeding
200
fertilized egg cell
Zygote
200
All protists are...
Eukaryotes
300
Division of a cell into two genetically identical cells
Binary fission
300
What does first word and the second word each identify in Binomial Nomenclature?
genus(group of similar species) specific epithet (a characteristic of an organism)
300
Scientists measure Earth’s geological and biological events using WHAT?
geologic time scale
300
Different ways that animals digest food
Plants make their own food from sunlight. Animals get their food by eating organisms.
300
Protists can be classified as
Protozoan, funguslike, plantlike
400
Method of reproduction in which two prokaryotes attach to each other and exchange genetic information
Conjugation
400
What is a discipline of biology primarily concerned with identifying, naming, and classifying species based on natural relationships
taxonomy
400
What is a layer of soot found between rock layers worldwide known for?
K-T boundary
400
Differences between anterior, posterior, dorsal, and ventral.
Anterior is head end, posterior is tail end, dorsal is backside, and ventral is underside or belly.
400
Features that distinguish fungi from plants
1.cell walls made of chitin 2.body structure made of tubular filaments 3.cross-walls
500
In fungi, net-like mass created by the hyphae as they grow at their tips and branch repeatedly
Mycelium
500
What is the order of the taxonomic group
class division family kingdom order phylum domain
500
What law states younger rock layers are deposited on top of older rock layers?
law of superposition
500
This polysaccharide is found at exoskeleton on animals.
Chitin
500
When what appeared in protist cells, algae evolved as the only protists that could photosynthesize?
Chloroplast