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bio chpt 16,17,18

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What does it mean to be gram-positive? gram-positive bacteria have a thick layer of peptidoglycan
Prokaryotes make ____ to help survive during harsh conditions endospores
Phototrophs get energy from ____ sunlight
Chemotrophs get energy from ____ chemicals
____ is the use of prokaryotes to remove pollutants bioremediation
Extreme halophiles salt lovers
Extreme thermophiles heat lovers
Methanogens anaerobic conditions
The five major groups of bacteria: proteobacteria, gram-positive bacteria, cyanobacteria, chlamydias, spirochetes
Proteobacteria all gram-negative and a share a certain rRNA sequence
Cyanobacteria the only group of prokaryotes with plantlike, oxygen generating photosynthesis
Chlamydias live inside eukaryotic host cells
Spirohetes pathogens
Three factors that contribute to genetic diversity of prokaryotes: rapid reproduction, mutation, genetic recombination
Prokaryotes reproduce ____ asexually or using binary fission
Prokaryotic DNA from different individuals can be brought together by ____, _____, and ____ transformation, transduction, and conjugation
DNA transformation: incorporate foreign DNA from the surrounding environment
DNA transduction: movement of genes between bacteria by phages
Conjugation: genetic material is transferred between prokaryotic cells
Pathogenic bacteria often cause disease by producing ____ and ____ exotoxins and endotoxins
Exotoxins proteins that bacterial cells secrete into the their environment
Endotoxins lipid components of the outer membrane of the gram-negative bacteria that are released when the cell dies or is digested
SAR supergroup contains what three clades stramenopila, alveolata, rhizaria
Stramenopila examples: diatoms, brown algae, water molds
Alveolata examples: dinoflagellates, ciliates, some parasites
Rhizaria examples: foraminiferans and radiolarians
The four super groups are: SAR, Excavata, archaeplastida, unikonta
Plants and green algae called charophytes ____, ____, ____ evolved from a common ancestor, have complex multicellular bodies and are photosynthetic eukaryotes
Adaptations to living on land? (plants) sunlight, lots of atmospheric CO2, few pathogens and plant eating animals
Disadvantages to living on land? (plants) maintain moisture in cells, need support to stand up, reproduce without moisture, live in soil
Shared traits of charophytes: rings of cellulose synthesizing proteins, structure of flagellated sperm, formation of phragmoplast
Five key traits that differ from charophytes alternation of generations, multicellular, dependent embryos, walled spores, multicellular gametangia, apical meristems
Bryophyte examples: mosses, liverwort, hornwort
Clades of vascular non-seed plants lycophytes (club mosses) monilophytes (ferns)
Types of seeded vascular plants gymnosperms and angiosperms
The haploid generation of plants that makes ____ is called the ____ gametes, gametophyte
The diploid generation of plants that makes ____ is called ____ spores, sporophyte
Why are bryophytes life cycle unique? their dominant stage is the gametophyte
Peat moss can be used a source of what? fuel
What type of plant has a "heart" shaped reproductive organ? ferns (seedless vascular plants)
What formed coal? decaying plants of the Devonian and Carboniferous forests (the two clades of seedless vascular plants)
In seed plants, the sperm is reduced to a ____ nucleus
Five derived traits of seed plants reduced gametophytes, heterospory, ovules, pollen, seeds
Microspore gives rise to a ____ gametophyte male
Megaspore gives rise to a ____ gametophyte female
Flowers are the sites of ____ and ____ pollination and fertilization
Flowers have ____ and ____ parts male and female
Flowers consist of ____, ____, ____, and ____ sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels
What are the male parts of a flower? stamen; anther, filament and pollen
What are the female parts of a flower? carpel; stigma, style, ovary, and ovule
What are fruits? ripened ovaries of flowers and an adaptation that help disperse seeds
Seed dispersal mechanisms wind, animals
Fruit=___ mature ovary
90% of plants have a symbiotic relationship with ___ fungi mycorrhizal
Most fungi are ____ saprobes
What is a saprobe fungi that break down
Fungi are ____ ____ heterotrophic eukaryotes
Imperfect fungi use ____ reproduction asexual
What are the five fungi groups? chytrids, zygomycetes, glomeromycetes, ascomycetes, basidiomycetes
Fungi are most closely related to unicellular protists called ____ nucleariids
Glomeroycota formed with plants
Ascomycota sac fungi
Basidiomycetes club fungi
What is the name for a fungal infection in animals mycosis
Lichens are made of ____ and ____ algae and fungi
Animals are ____, ____ ____, and lack ____ ____ eukaryotes, multicellular heterotrophs and lack cell walls
After a sperm fertilizes an egg, the zygote undergoes rapid cell division called ____ cleavage
Cleavage forms ____ blastula
What do hox genes do? regulate the development of body form
Larva sexually immature, stage after egg
Juvenile resembles an adult but isn't sexually mature
____% of animals are invertebrates 96
Ectoderm germ layer covering the embryo's surface
Endoderm innermost germ layer and lines developing digestive tube called the archenteron
Sponges lack ____ ____ true tissues
Diploblastic only have ____ and ____ ectoderm and endoderm
Triploblastic have an intermediate tissue layer called mesoderm
Protostome opening is the future ____ mouth
Deuterostome opening is the future ____ anus
A true body cavity is called a ____ and is derived from ____ coelom; mesoderm
Coelomates are animals that posses a true ____ coelom
What group has radial symmetry cnidarians
____ is a clade of animals with tissues Eumetazoa "true animals"
What type of animal lack body symmetry sponges
Central cavity in sponges is called ____ spongocoel
What filters food from water in sponges? choanocytes
Cnidarians are ____ with _____ cells radial; stinging
Two body forms of cnidarians polyp and medusa
____ are organelles that contain a stinging thread nematocysts
____ ____ contains the internal organs of a mollusc visceral mass
____ my contain a shell in molluscs mantle
Molluscs feed themselves with a ____ radula
Annelids are ____ ____ segmented worms
What are the four major classes of molluscs polyplacophora, gastropoda, bivalvia, cephalopoda
Nematodes can be ____ parasites
Arthropods have an ____ exoskeleton
As an arthropod grows, it must ____ molt
The body of an insect typically contains these five things: head, thorax, abdomen, three sets of legs, wings
Complete metamorphosis: larva ---> pupa ---> adult
Incomplete metamorphosis: larva ---> multiple molts ---> adult
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