Kingdom Protista
What is the Protista kingdom referred to among the kingdoms?
The junk drawer
What is a heterotroph?
An organism that consumes other organisms; a consumer
What are the two ways plants absorb water and what are those types called?
Vascular (straw) and Nonvascular (sponge)
What is the purpose of bread yeast?
Makes bread rise
Is a dog a vertebrate or an invertebrate?
Vertebrate
Name one way that a protist moves
Cilia hairs (flutters), flagella (whips tail)
What is an autotroph?
An organism that is capable of creating its own food; a producer
What is the process called where all plants use the sun to create their own food?
Photosynthesis
The fungi Penicillium marneffei can be used for what?
Medicine
True or false: an exoskeleton is a skeleton located on the inside of a creatures body
False
What are the 3 ways protists are grouped?
Plants, animals, fungi
Less than one percent
Gymnosperms and angiosperms are vascular or nonvascular plants?
Vascular
What are the 3 types of symbiotic relationships? Write the names OR describe it
Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism
True or false: amphibians are endothermic because they live in moderate climates
False
What is the meaning of the name “amoeba”?
To change
Name two ways bacteria is helpful
Keeps us healthy, breaks down and digests our food, creates vitamins and medicines, breaks down plants and other decaying materials, provides nutrients for plants to grow
What are two characteristics of angiosperms?
Produces flowers, seeds in fruit, pollinated by insects
Eukaryotic
What are two animals that have an exoskeleton and an endoskeleton?
Armadillos, turtles, tortoises
Amoebas reproduce through a process called binary fission. What is does that mean?
One amoeba splits into two identical halves and becomes two new microorganisms
What is the species name for the bacteria you can get from eating raw cookie dough?
Salmonella bongori
Is wheat an agiosperm or a gymnosperm?
Angiosperm
How do fungi reproduce?
Microscopic seeds, known as spores
What percent of all animals are intervertebrates?
97%