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Simple Kingdoms Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antibiotic | medicine used to kill bacteria |
| autotroph | producer or organism that has the ability to make its own food |
| bioremediation | biological treatment of hazardous waste by living organisms |
| decomposers | an organism that breaks down dead matter |
| eukaryote | organisms that are made up of cells that contain a nucleus |
| heterotroph | consumers or organisms that cannot make their own food |
| host | organism from which a parasite takes food or shelter |
| lichen | symbiotic (mutalistic)relationship between a fungus and an algae |
| prokaryote | organisms that contain cells without a nucleus |
| What important cell structure do bacteria lack? | nucleus |
| What type of environments do Archaebacteria live in? | extreme enviornments: oceans, hot springs, salty waters, swamps, animal intestines |
| endospore | thick walled protective spore that forms inside a bacteria cell (*formed when conditions are harsh) |
| How do bacteria reproduce? | binary fission (copy DNA & divide) |
| How are bacteria helpful? | decomposers (recycle), nitrogen fixation, bioremediation, food, medicine |
| How are bacteria harmful? | pathogenic (disease causing), damage crops |
| How is a virus like a living thing? | Viruses can reproduce, they have genetic material, they contain protein |
| How does a virus reproduce? | By attacking a living cell and turning it into a virus factory. |
| What are the basic characteristics of protists? | most are unicellular, few multicellular, eukaryotes |
| Pseudopods | "false feet" or extensions of cytoplasm (ameoba) |
| Cilia | hair like strucutures (paramecium) |
| Flagella | whip like tail (euglena) |
| How do plantlike protist make their own food? | photosynthesis |
| What are the basic characteristics of fungi? | mostly multicellular with a few unicellular, eukaryotes, heterotrophs, cell wall, cannot move on own, reproduce sexually or asexually |
| hyphae | fungal filaments (chains of cells) |
| mushrooms | club fungi that contain cap, gills, stripe |
| yeast | unicellular fungi, reproduce by budding |
| mold | shapeless of fungi |
| budding | asexual reproduction used by yeast |
| Examples of human fungal infections | Athlete's Foot, Ringworm |
| How do fungi reproduce? | asexual reproduction (spores, broken hyphae, budding) & sexual reproduction |
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