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Ch. 4.I Classifying Living Things
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02/07/2005
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Organisms that use oxygen to break down food and release energy
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aerobes
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Organisms that do not use oxygen to break down food and release energy
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anaerobes
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a system developed by Linnaeus for naming living things
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Binomial nomenclature
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organisms which love on or in another organism and are harmful to that organism
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parasites
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organisms that float on or near the surface of the ocean
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plankton
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organisms that feed on dead matter
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saprophytes
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the science of classifying living things
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taxonomy
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the most inclusive classification containing one or more groups from the next lower level
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kingdom
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a group of related classes
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phylum or division
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a group of related orders
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class
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a group of related families
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order
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a group of related genera
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family
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a group of related species
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genus
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person who developed the classification of living things
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Linnaeus
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The five kingdoms of living things
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monera, protist, fungi, plant, animal
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Basic characteristics are:
single prokaryotic cell, no membrane-bound organelles, microscopic
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monera
Example: bacteria
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Basic characteristics are:
one-celled or multi-cellular, true nucleus, eukaryotic cells
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protist
Example: amoeba
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Basic characteristics are: multicellular, food from dead organisms, cannot move, eukaryotic cells
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fungi
Example: mushroom
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Basic characteristics are:
multicellular, cannot move, make their own food, cell walls, eukaryotic cells
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plants
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Basic characteristics are:
multicellular, moves about, depends on others for food, eukaryotic cells
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animal
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Kings Play Chess On Fuzzy Green Sofas
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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Important food producers in lakes and ponds that have a blue pigment
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cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae
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Organisms that are not cells at all. Outside of a cell it is inanimate, but inside a cell will reproduce and has the ability to mutate
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viruses
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One-celled organisms that move around with a flagella. They have chloroplasts and can make their own food. They live in fresh water.
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euglenas
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Single-celled algae that store their own food in the form of oil. When dead, they are used in toothpaste, detergents, paint removers, and scouring powders.
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diatoms or golden algae
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Organism found in fresh and salt water that has red pigment and moves using two flagella. They produce a red tide when they overpopulate the water.
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Dinoflagellates
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This plant-like protist stores food in the form of starch and are one-celled or multid-cellular. They live in or out of water.
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green algae
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This algae produces a type of starch on which it lives. The Irish kind is used to give toothpaste and pudding its smoothness.
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red algae
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This type of brown algae is an important food source for many people around the world
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Kelp
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A typical ciliate having hair-like structures called cilia which helps it move freely. They can live in fresh and salt water and have oral grooves.
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paramecium
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This animal-like protist causes Aftrican sleeping sickness in humans and other animals when it is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
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Trypanosome flagellate
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These animal-like protists move by way of a pseudopod. When dead, they form chalk and limestone on the ocean floor.
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sacodinas
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A phylum containing only parasites that feed on the blood of humans and other amimals. Example: malaria
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sporozoa
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An organism made up of protozoa and algae
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plankton
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A fungus-like protist found in damp soil and on rotting wood
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slime mold
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This kind of mold attacked the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840's causing a famine that killed over a million people.
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water mold
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a mass of thread-like tubes that grow underground the body of a fungus
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hyphae
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the black fuzzy mold found on bread or fruit
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zygote fungi
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saprophytes that include yeasts, molds, truffles, and morels
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sac fungi
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common name for club fungi
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mushrooms
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example of a helpful imperfect fungi
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penicillin
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organism made up of a fungus and either a green alga or a cyanobacterium
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lichen
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