Taxonomy
The correct scientific name:
a) Accer saccharum
b) Accer saccharum
c) Accer Saccharuma) Accer saccharum
The two ways that bacteria reproduce.
binary fission and conjugation
Are viruses living?
No.
Are fungi prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
eukaryotes
Are most unicellular or multicellular?
unicellular
The 3 domains of life.
Eukaryotes, Archaea, Bacteria
True or False:
All bacteria are pathogenic.
False.
The contents of a virus (what makes up a virus).
Nucleic acid and a protein coat.
True or false:
All fungi are heterotrophs.
True
True or False:
protists are the least diverse kingdom
False
What is contained in a clade?
most recent common ancestor and it's descendants.
The material that composes their cell walls.
Peptidoglycan.
True or False:
Viruses respond to stimuli.
False.
What are fungi cell walls made of?
Chitin
What do protists use for locomotion?
Pseudopod
Cilia
Flagellum
Phylogenies are determined through which 3 types of evidence?
anatomical evidence
physiological evidence
DNA evidence
What is a facultative anaerobe?
use oxygen when it is present, but live anaerobically when oxygen is absent.
Give two examples of a virus.
HPV
Herpes
Influenza
Covid19
Smallpox
What 3 ways can fungi asexually reproduce?
Spores
Budding
Fragmentation
What does plasmodium cause?
malaria
The species concept that focuses on the body, size, and structural relationships among organisms.
Morphological species concept.
The way that antibiotics combat bacteria.
Interfering with the peptidoglycan in the cell walls.
What replication cycle is a virus dormant in?
lysogenic cycle.
What is a saprotroph?
Feed on dead organisms by excreting digestive enzymes (molds, mushrooms)
What is a human use for protists?
seaweed wraps
agar
toothpastes, cosmetics