Chapter 11 Def | Chapter 11 Vocab |
The two kingdoms described as being prokaryotic are | Archaebacteria and Eubacteria |
Spherical bacteria can be called | Coccus |
Spiral bacteria can be called | Sprillium |
Rod-shaped bacteria can be called | Bacillus |
T/F: Some medicines and foods are produced by certain types of bacteria | True |
Kingdom Protista contains two main groups of organisms | Protozoans and algae |
Amoebas exhibit which method of protozoan movement | Pseudopodia |
The microscopic organisms that float near the ocean's surface and provide food for many oceanic animals are | Plankton |
Spirogyra can reproduce by asexual fragmentation or by a sexual form of reproduction called | Conjugation |
T/F: All members of kingdom Protista are able to produce their own food. | False |
General term for the long, thin filaments that make up fungi | Hyphae |
Common method of fungi reproduction is through the release of tiny | spores |
T/F: The term saprophyte means parasite. | False |
T/F: The natural process of decomposition is dependent on both bacteria and fungi. | True |
Lichens form when fungi combines with | Algae |
How do viruses reproduce? | Reproducing by infected cells |
The 3 bacterial shapes | Coccus, Spirillum, Bacillus |
Fungi and bacteria are important in the natural environment because they | Decompose wastes |
Kingdom that contains tiny unicellular or colonial organisms called algae and protozoans | Protista |
All fungi produce | Spores |
A lichen is an organism that is made of | Fungus and algae |
The kingdom that contains true bacteria and cyanobacteria | Eubacteria |
Once known as blue-green algae | Cyanobacteria |
No prokaryote has this organelle | Nucleus |
Nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat | Virus |
Kingdom whose members live in extreme environments | Archaebacteria |
bacteria arranged end to end in long chains | Strep |
Animal-like protists | Protozoa |
Plantlike protists | Algae |
Long, whiplike hairs | flagella |
Short, hairlike projections | Cilia |
Most abundant food in the ocean | Plankton |
An overpopulation of dinoflagellates | Red tide |
Asexual reproduction in Spirogyra | fragmentation |
A type of asexual reproduction | Conjugation |
A virus is smaller than | bacterium |
Bacteria is helpful or harmful? | helpful |
Can perform photosynthesis | Algae |
Found in amoebas | Pseudopodia |
T/F: An amoeba surrounds and engulfs its food | True |
Where does antibiotic penicillin come from? | Fungus |
Human disease caused by protozoa | Malaria or African sleeping sickness |
Fungus or other organisms that absorbs food from dead material | Saprophyte |
Interferon is a chemical your body produces to protet you from what? | Viruses |