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bio vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prokaryotes | an organism characterised by prokaryotic cells which lack membrane enclosed nucleus |
| eukaryotes | an organism chracterized by eukaryotic which has membrane enclosed nucleus and other membrane enclosed organelles |
| spontaneous generation | the incorrect notion that life can emerge from inanimate material |
| biogenesis | the principle that all life arises by the reproduction of preexisting life |
| ribozymes | an enzymatic RNA molecule that catalyze chemical reaction |
| bacteria | one of the two prokryotic domains of life the other being archea |
| cocci | spherical prokaryotic cell |
| bacilli | a rod shaped prokaryotic cell |
| spirochetes | a large spiral shaped prokaryotic cell |
| endospores | a thick coated protective cell produced within a bacteril cell exposed to harsh conditions |
| binary fission | a means of asexual reproduction in which a parent organism other single cell dicided into two indiciduals about equal sice |
| photoautotrophs | an organism that obtains energy from sunglight and carbon from CO2 |
| chemoautotrophs | an organism that obtains both energy and carbon inorganic chemicals making its own organic compounds from CO2 without using light energy |
| photoheterophs | an organism that obtains energy and carbon from organic molecules |
| pathogens | disease casing organism |
| exotoxins | a poisonous component of the cell walls of certain bacteria |
| bioremediation | the use of livign organisms to detoxify and restore polluted and degraded ecosystems |
| protists | any eukaryotes that is not a plant animal or fungus |
| symbiosis | an interspecific interaction in which one species the symbiont lives in or on another species the host |
| endosymiosis | symbiotic relationship in which one species resides wtihtin another species the mitochondrion and chloroplast of eukaryotes cells probably small prokaryotic cells living inside larger ones |
| protozoans | a protist that lives promarily by ingesting good;a heterotrophic animal like protists |
| flagellates | a protest that moves y means of one or more flagella |
| ameoba | a type of protist chracterized by great flexibility and the presence of pseudopodia |
| pseudopodia | atemporary extensions of an ameoboid cell-fictio in moving cells and engulfing good |
| forams | marine protozoan that secretes a shell and extends pseudopodia through pores in its shell |
| apicomplexans | a type of parasitic protozoan some cause serious human disease |
| plasmodiall slime molds | a type of protist that has ameoboid cells flagellated cells and an amoeboid plasmodial fedding stage in its life cycle |
| cellular slime molds | a type |
| algae | any of a great variety of protist most of which are unicellular or colonial photosunthetic autotrophs with chloroplast conaining pigments chlorophull |
| plankton | algae and other organisms mostly microscopic that drift passicely in ponds lakes and oceans |
| dinoflgellate | a unicellular photosuntheiic algea with two flagella situated in perpendicular grooves in cellulose plaes convering the cell |
| diatoms | a unicellular photosunthetic algea with a wunique glassy cell wall containing silica |
| green algae | one of the groups of photsynthetic protst that includes unicellular colonil and mulitcellular species- plant like in bi glgellated cells chloropats with chlorophyll a cellulose cell walls and starch |
| seaweeds | a large multicellular marine alae |
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