Vocabulary
The science that orders and classifies living creatures.
What is taxonomy? ("Classification" also accepted.)
The number of kingdoms into which all living things are classified (organized). Name them.
What is five: Monera, Protoctist, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia?
This type of fungi feeds on decomposed matter.
What are SAPROPHYTES?
TRUE OR FALSE:
All protoctists have eukaryotic cells.
TRUE.
The resistant structures that some bacteria form which allow them to survive adverse (negative) conditions.
What are resistant spores?
One of the elements that makes up air and is written as O2 in is gaseous form. Your team must spell the word o get full credit.
What is oxygen?
The two features that every virus has.
What are genetic material (nucleic acid) and capsid (a protein covering surrounding the nucleic acid)? (Some viruses also have an envelope, an outer shell of proteins that form a crown, or corona).
These are produced when multicellular fungi reproduce asexually.
What are SPORES?
This is the type of nutrition in which protozoa, such as Vorticellae, feed on other living things by "catching" them.
What are predators?
The type of asexual reproduction of most bacteria in which a bacterial cell makes a copy of its DNA and divides into two separate cells.
What is BINARY FISSION?
The two types of cells, defined by whether or not they have an enclosed nucleus. For full credit your team must spell both words correctly.
What are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
Two diseases caused by viruses (NOT bacteria).
Many answers are possible.
The type of cellular nutrition that consists of feeding on other living things, harming them and causing diseases.
What is parasitical nutrition? ("What are parasites?" also accepted.)
This is the most important pigment in green algae; it is essential for photosynthesis.
What is CHLOROPHYLL?
Bacteria can be classified according to their shape. Name and describe all four shapes.
SPHERE (COCCI)
ROD (BACILLI)
SPIRAL (SPIRILLA)
CURVED (VIBRIOS)
A type of autotrophic nutrition, commonly associated with but not limited to plants, in which organic substances are produced from inorganic substances. For full credit your team must spell the word correctly.
What is photosynthesis?
This mold is an antibiotic accidentally discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928.
What is penicillin?
"Fun" fact, Clara is allergic to this antibiotic.
The cells of multicellular fungi are long and cylindrical and they join together to form HYPHAE. This is the network created by hyphae joining together.
What is the MYCELIUM?
Resistant structures some protozoa form which allow them to survive in adverse conditions.
What are cysts?
Correct the following FALSE sentence:
All bacteria are parasites and they cause diseases.
Multiple responses possible.
This is the standard convention used for naming species that was developed by Carl Von Linnaeus.
BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
The process by which unicellular fungi, like yeast, reproduce.
What is BUDDING?
When yeast does this, it transforms carbohydrates into carbon dioxide and other substances. It is essential for the production of bread and alcoholic drinks, such as wine and beer.
What is FERMENTATION?
Protozoa are mostly mobile and are usually classified by the way they move. Name the four types of protozoa based on this classification and describe each of the types.
What are flagellates (Trypanosome; Euglena = algae), ciliates (Paramecium), rhizopods (Amoeba), and sporozoa (Plasmodium)?
Name and explain TWO reasons bacteria are important.
Decomposing bacteria, Photosynthetic bacteria, Bacteria in intestinal flora, Bacteria for industrial use (especially food and medicine).