Prok vs. Euk
These organisms have cells which contain NO nucleus or membrane-bound organelles.
What are prokaryotes?
This group of prokaryotes is superficially similar to bacteria but contains more species adapted to extreme environments.
What are Archaea?
These autotrophic bacteria are sometimes known as blue-green algae.
What are cyanobacteria?
This "Father of Microbiology" first discovered and wrote about protists in the 1700s.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
This common name describes not plants but "golden, brown, red, and green" multicellular protist groups.
What are algae?
This Domain of life is more closely related to Archaea than to Bacteria.
What is Eucarya?
This type of extremophile survives and thrives in very salty environments.
What are halophiles?
Utilizing bacteria to clean up oil spills is an example of an application of this.
What is biotechnology?
These types of protists may be both autotrophs and heterotrophs depending upon the environment they are in.
What are mixotrophs?
This distinctly noticeable area of the cell helps protists such as Euglena and Chlamydomonas recognize and move towards light.
What is an eyespot?
This is the region of the cell where DNA is stored in prokaryotes.
What is the nucleoid?
Prokaryotes of this type of shape-grouping combination are spherical and connected to each other in rows.
What are streptococci?
These types of plants associate most commonly with Nitrogen Fixing bacteria.
What are legumes?
This process explains how protists likely evolved via prokaryotes engulfing other prokaryotes.
What is Endosymbiosis?
This protist causes the disease malaria and is spread by mosquito insect vectors.
What is Plasmodium?
These small "protein factories" are found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
What are ribosomes?
Oxygen is poisonous to these prokaryotes.
What are facultative anaerobes?
The cell walls of these bacteria contain a very thick layer of peptidoglycan and tend to show up purple after a gram-staining procedure.
What are gram-positive bacteria?
This organelle is where autotrophic protists conduct the process of photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
Protists such as Paramecium utilize these tiny hairlike structures to move through their environment.
What are cilia?
Peptidoglycan is found in the cell walls of only this group of prokaryotes.
What are bacteria?
In Transduction, this type of virus may transfer DNA between prokaryotes.
What is a bacteriophage?
Instead of photosynthesis, some bacteria thought to be very closely related to earth's earliest organisms utilize this nutritional strategy.
What is chemosynthesis?
Protozoa used to be recognized as a group of protists most closely related to animals but now we realize most of these protists are simply exhibiting this.
What is convergent evolution? (Alternatively, what are analogous structures)?
These types of protists act as crucial mutualists in coral reef environments.
What are Dinoflagellates? (Alternatively, what are Zooxanthae?)