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Undergraduate 1
04/30/2009

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What is the present system of naming organisms called?
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Binomial nomenclature
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Several classes occur within a single
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Phylum
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Which of the following is the best modern definition of a species?
Definition
Similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile oppspring
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Which of the following are prokaryotes?
Definition
Monera
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How do viruses create more viruses?
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By directing a host cell to make new viruses
Term
Which of the following is not caused by a virus?
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Anthrax
Term
Spherical bacteria that occur in clumps are called
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Staphylococci
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Name a stain that is frequently used in the identification of bacteria.
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Gram stain
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Malaria has always been associated with warm swampy portions of the world. Malaria is caused by
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A protist
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Name the structure involved in movement of Amoeba.
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Pseudopod
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Which of the following is characteristic of practically all protists?
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Single celled
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Name the thread-like structural unit of most fungi.
Definition
Hypha
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How do fungi resemble animals?
Definition
No chloroplasts, store carbohydrate as glycogen, and Heterotrophic
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What groupd of fungi includes the organisms that cause athlete's foot?
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Fungi imperfecti
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What group of fungi includes the organisms that cause athlete's foot?
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Fungi imperfecti
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What group of organisms includes brewer's or baker's yeast?
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Ascomycetes
Term
Which of the following constantly threatens the wheat supply of the world?
Definition
Rusts
Term
Which of the following is seen in both fungi and plants?
Definition
Cell walls
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Which of the following is caused by an ascomycete?
Definition
Dutch elm disease, Chestnut blight, Apple scab
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What group of fungi includes the common edible mushroom that you might buy in a grocery store?
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Basidiomycetes
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What group of fungi wiped out the potato crop in the 1840s and 1850s and was responsible for many people starving to death or coming to the United States?
Definition
Phycomycetes
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Which of the following have radial symmetry?
Definition
Echinodermata
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Which of the following has a pseudocoelom?
Definition
Nematoda
Term
What term suggests a concentration of major sense organs in the head?
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Cephalization
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Name the stinging cells that are found in Coelenterates.
Definition
Cnidocytes
Term
Which of the following belong to the phylum Coelenterata (Cnidaria)?
Definition
Corals, Sea anemones, Hydra
Term
Which of the following is always present in chordates?
Definition
A hollow dorsal nerve cord
Term
What group of animals has a water vascular system?
Definition
Echinoderms
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Which of the following belong to the phylum Echinodermata?
Definition
Sea star (starfish)
Term
Which of the following has the greater number of species?
Definition
Arthropoda
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Name chordates that have lungs.
Definition
Tetrapods
Term
"Red and yellow kill a fellow, red and black, OK Jack," refers to what?
Definition
Coral snake
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Which of the following includes man?
Definition
Eutheria
Term
Lobster's phylum.
Definition
Arthropod
Term
Pinworm's phylum.
Definition
None
Term
Jellyfish's phylum.
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Coelenterate
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Hagfish's phylum.
Definition
Chordate
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Barnacle's phylum.
Definition
Arthropod
Term
Tapeworm's phylum.
Definition
Platyhelminthes
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Monkey's phylum.
Definition
Chordate
Term
Sow bug's (roly-poly) phylum.
Definition
Arthropod
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