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Terminology
Fungi
Plants
Labs and Such
Potpourri
100
This structure surrounds the plasma membrane in plant, fungi and bacterial cells.
What is the cell wall?
100
These reproductive structures are contained within the gills.
What are spores?
100
A plant that reproduces by making a flower.
What is an angiosperm?
100

This controls the light entering the stage of your microscope.

What is the diaphragm?

100
An organism that produces its own food.
What is an autotroph?
200
An organism that consumes another organism for its nutrition
What is a heterotroph?
200
An organism that ABSORBS its nutrients
What is a saprotroph?
200
A group of plants that produce "naked seeds"
What is a gymnosperm?
200
This thick, greasy oil helps keep a shark buoyant.
What is squalene?
200
Members within this taxonomic grouping share the LEAST similarity to one another.
What is a kingdom?
300
An _______ species is native to a particular area.
What is endemic
300
A singular "thread" of the body of a fungus growing underground.
What is a hyphae?
300
This would be a blade on a compound leaf.
What is a leaflet?
300
The "factor" who effect is being measured in a lab.
What is the responding variable?
300
These hairlike structures help certain protists move.
What are cilia?
400
A cell that has half of the chromosome number for a particular species.
What is a haploid cell?
400
The polysaccharide that makes up a mushroom's cell wall.
What is chitin?
400
All future leaves begin growing from this stem structure.
What is a node?
400
This substance is produced by fermenting bacteria in the pickling process.
What is lactic acid?
400
Members of this phylum have a dorsal hollow nerve chord
What is a chordate?
500
These little proteins are biological catalysts.
What is an enzyme?
500
This is a symbiosis between tree roots and certain species of fungi.
What are mycorrhizal relationships?
500
The female reproductive portion of a flower.
What is the pistil?
500

This type of bacteria does not need oxygen to ferment.

What is anaerobic?

500
This type of reaction builds a polymer from subunits.
What is a synthesis reaction?