Bacteria, Protozoans, and Fungi
A microscopic, prokaryotic organism both beneficial and destructive.
What is bacter?
The study of plants.
What is botany?
An example organism from the plant group that lacks vascular tissue.
What are mosses?
The type of feeding shared by sponges and clams.
What is filter feeding?
The type of skeleton found in fish, reptiles, and mammals.
What is a bony skeleton?
DNA or RNA is a protein coat.
What is a virus?
The type of root system found in monocot plants such as grass or corn.
What is a fibrous root system?
The repeating pattern circling between asexual and sexual generations.
What is alternation of generation?
The type of circulatory found in the insects group?
What is an open circulatory system?
Which bones do all vertebrates share?
What are the skull, vertebrae, and ribs?
This is a colonial organism classified by its color and a major producer of oxygen in the atmosphere.
What is algae?
The tissue used to transport materials up from the roots to the stems and leaves of the plants.
What is xylem?
An example of a vascular plant without seeds.
What is a fern?
(horsetail, clubmoss)
The system of the starfish that has tube feet and helps in locomotion.
What is the water-vascular system?
The organ used to digest and absorb nutrients.
What is the small intestine?
All members of this kingdom are heterotrophic, mostly colonial, and are the other major decomposer.
What is kingdom Fungi?
The structure found in a leaf that serves to transport materials in and out of the leaf.
What is a vein?
The female part of the plant that holds the eggs.
When an insects sheds its exoskeleton and regrows a new one.
What is molting?
The type of feather used for insulation and found on baby birds.
What is down?
Organisms that are generally unicellular, eukaryotic, and classified by their means of locomotion.
What are Protozoans?
The outermost layer of cells found on a leaf or stem.
What is the epidermis?
The male structure that holds the sperm?
What is pollen?
(also accept anther)
This metamorphosis includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages.
What is complete metamorphosis?
Mammals that lay eggs.
What are monotremes?