Somethin' about Vocab
They are responsible for decomposing waste.
Which of the following terms, doesn't belong:
flagella, sprillium, coccus, bacillus
Flagella, the other 3 are shapes of bacteria.
What type of micro-organism is the cause of malaria?
How do paramecia eat?
They use cilia to sweep food into their oral groove.
This is a nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.
What is a virus?
This is the term given to how bacteria reproduce asexually.
What is binary fission?
Explain how viruses reproduce.
What cellular process do algae carry out that protists and fungi do not?
What is photosynthesis?
The type of bacteria that act as producers.
What is cyanobacteria?
This is the name of the kingdom that live in extreme environments.
What is Archaebacteria?
This is the term given to chemicals that the body produces to protect itself against viruses.
What are interferons?
What do all fungi produce (they are used for reproduction).
What are spores?
These are the animal-like protists.
What are protozoans?
These are long, whip-like hairs used for movement.
What are flagella?
These are short, hair-like projections.
What are cilia?
This is the name of the kingdom that contains true bacteria and cyanobacteria.
What is kingdom Eubacteria?
These are plant-like protists.
What are algae?
This is what happens when there is an overpopulation of dinoflagellates.
What is a "red tide"?
This is the way Spirogyra reproduce asexually.
What is fragmentation?
This is a type of sexual reproduction we studied this chapter and is observed in algae.
What is conjugation?
This is the term given to a rod-shaped bacteria.
What is bacillus?
This is the structure that amoebas use for movement.
What are pseudopods?
Most fungi are composed of long filaments that are given this name.
What is hyphae?
This is the term given to spherical bacteria.
What is coccus?
This is the term given when a virus remains inactive inside its host cell.
What is latent?