Bacteria and Archaea
The movement of an organism towards nutrients or oxygen
What is Positive Phototaxis?
Excavata, SAR clade, Unikonta, and Archaeplastida
What are the four eukaryotic supergroups?
What is the mycelium?
The evolutionary trend toward the concentration of sensory equipment at the anterior end of the body and is associated with bilateral symmetry.
What is Cephalization?
Smaller rings of DNA that can replicate independently, be transferred, and are not needed for special contingencies. Help with genetic advantages such as antibiotic resistance
What is a plasmid?
The vector for Leishmaniasis.
What is a sandfly?
General term for a fungal infection (i.e., ringworm, athletes foot, etc.)
What is a mycosis?
A member of a group of animal phyla identified as a clade by molecular evidence. Many of these are molting animals.
What is an ecdysozoa?
A sticky, secreted substance that forms another outside protective layer that is dense and well-defined. It enables prokaryotes to adhere to their substrates or to other individuals to form a colony. It can protect against dehydration and a host's defenses.
What is a Capsule?
(P.S. : A slime layer is a capsule that is not well organized)
Largely varies group of protists named for their cuse of cilia to move around. They have two distinct types of nuclei -- micronuclei and macronuclei.
What is a ciliate?
A fungus that lacks septa and whose body is made up of a continuous cytoplasmic mass that may contain hundreds or thousands of nuclei.
What is a coenocytic fungus?
A body cavity not completely lined with mesoderm.
What is a Pseudocoelom?
Inhibits prokaryotic growth by inhibiting x-link formation, which is how the sugars of peptidoglycan are held together. This interferes with cell wall function, making it easier to bypass the cell membrane and kill the cell.
What is Penicillin?
What is a diatom?
Mycelia that have become genetically heterogeneous through the fission of two hyphae with genetically different nuclei.
What are Heterokaryon?
These are triploblastic animals without a cavity between the gut and outer body wall.
What is acoelomates?
Inhibits bacterial growth by binding to the 23s rRNA molecule or the bacterial ribosome blocking the exit of the growing peptide chain.
What is Erythromycin?
Also called mycetozoans, they were once thought to be fungi, but DNA sequence analysis revealed the resemblance is the result of convergent evolution.
What is a slime mold?
(P.S. : Plasmodial slime molds are diploid while cellular slime molds are haploid organisms.)
A phylum that includes stinkhorns, puffballs, mushrooms, earth stars, jelly fungi, etc. Members of this phylum have small 'clubs' on their gills that produce spores. It includes some of the deadliest mushrooms on Earth such as: Amanita muscaria, Amanita phalloides, and all species under the name 'destroying angel'.
What is Basidiomycota?
These protists are considered the ancestors of fungi and animals.
What are colonial flagellated protists?