Plants and Protists
A type of algae that has a silica shell and has many different shapes.
What are diatoms?
The three most commonly known types of fungi.
What are mushrooms, mold, and yeast?
The control center of the cell that contains the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The 5 main groupings of vertebrates.
What are mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, and amphibians?
The three main items of personal protective equipment (PPE) that are worn when performing a dissection.
What are gloves, goggles, and lab aprons?
Thin, hair-like structures around the outside of a paramecium's body that allow it to move around and swim.
What are cilia?
The phylum that contains sea sponges.
What is Phylum Porifera?
The 4 phases of mitosis that comprise the M phase of the cell cycle.
What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
The name for chordate creatures with a true backbone. They are grouped into sub-phylum vertebrata.
What are vertebrates?
The seven levels of biological classification that starts with Kingdom....
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
The process by which plants use the sun's light energy to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
The phylum of invertebrates that contains creatures with jointed legs, exoskeletons, and compound eyes!
What is phylum arthropoda?
All living things are made of one or more cells.
Cells are the basic unit of life.
All cells must come from other cells.
What is the "cell theory"?
Animals that have a backbone and 4 limbs.
What are tetrapods?
The movement of WATER across a semi-permeable membrane (like the cell membrane)
What is osmosis?
The specialized "tubes" in plant stems and roots that allow the transport of water and nutrients throughout the plant.
What are the xylem and phloem?
The type of body symmetry that cnidarians (jellyfish and sea anemone's) have.
What is radial symmetry?
The 4 phases of the cell cycle including the phase in which mitosis happens and the 3 phases that make up interphase.
What is G1, S, G2, and M?
The types of amphibians that are a part of Order Anura.
What are frogs and toads?
The three main shapes of bacteria...
What is coccus, bacillus, and spirillum?
Flowering plants that have a single seed leaf, leaves with parallel veins, and petals with multiples of 3.
What are monocots?
Segmented worms such as earthworms and leeches that have bilateral symmetry.
What are annelids?
Cells that have a nucleus and other membrane bound organelles (like mitochondria, chloroplasts, and golgi bodies) Include all plant and animal cells.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
An anatomical feature of fish that allows them to adjust how much they float in the water.
What is a swim bladder?
A microscope's ability to make small things look bigger and its ability to tell two things apart from one another.
What is Magnification and Resolution?