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| Division of nuclear DNA followed by cell division. |
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| Division of nuclear DNA that halves the ploidy number (diploid->haploid) |
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| Two different species "living together" in an intimate relationship (e.g. lichens). |
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| An organism that is both heterotrophic and autotrophic. |
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| Flagellum (found in flagellates) |
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| A whiplike structure for locomotion of single celled organisms |
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| Cilia (found in cilliates) |
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| Hair-like structures for locomotion of single celled organisms. |
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| "False foot" used for locomotion of single celled organisms (amoeboids). |
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| Protected dormant cell of a microbe. |
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| An organism that requires oxygen for respiration or a habitat w/ oxygen. |
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| An organism that cannot tolerate oxygen or a habitat without oxygen. |
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| Tiny floating "plants" = algae. |
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| A term that refers to autotrophs: organisms that make their own food and initially supply food to the food cycle. |
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| Using living organisms to clean up pollution. |
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| organisms that make food using sunlight energy (plants, algae and cyanobacteria) |
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| organisms that make food using chemical energy (some archaebacteria and some bacteria). |
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| organisms that acquire their energy by eating others (animals, fungi, protozoans, some bacteria) |
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| cyanobacterial mats that are among the oldest fossils (2.7 byo) |
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| Bacteria acquire DNA from the environment. |
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| Bacteria acquire DNA from viruses (bacteriophages). |
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| Bacteria exchange DNA with each other. |
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| Extra ring of DNA in bacteria. |
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| An RNA virus that uses the enzyme reverse transcriptase to induce replication of its genome |
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| Protein shell/coating of a virus. |
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| Virus that infects bacteria. |
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| Virus kills the host cell. |
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| Component of bacterial cell walls. |
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| Where the only multicellular tissues are diploid. |
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| Diploid, spore-producing stage/part of a plant. |
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| Haploid, gamete-producing stage/part of a plant. |
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| The scientific study of plants. |
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| Having water and nutrient conducting tissues (tubes.) |
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| Plants that possess vascular tissues. |
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| Those plants lacking vascular tissues (Bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, hornworts). |
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| The female reproductive parts of a flower. |
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| The male reproductive parts of a flower. |
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| When pollen contacts the top of the carpel (stigma). |
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| Water conducting tube in vascular plants. |
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| Having two copies of every gene (2n). |
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| Nutrient and hormone conducting tube in vascular plants. |
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| Having one copy of every gene (n) |
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| The movement of water up from the roots to the leaves via capillary action and evaporation. |
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| The tiny openings on the surface of leaves for gas exchange. Located on the underside of leaves. |
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| When the pollen/sperm reaches and fuses with the egg (restoring 2n diploidy). |
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| Loss of water and moisture to the environment. Drying out. |
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| Dropping leaves each year. |
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| Reproductive structure that protects and nourishes the plant embryo. |
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| "Naked seed" plants/trees such as conifers, cycads, ginkgos. |
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| "Protected seed" plats/trees such as deciduous trees and flowering plants. |
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| Trees that produce gametes and seeds in cones. |
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| Having multicellular haploid and diploid tissues/stages as in most plants. |
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| Archea, Bacteria, Eukarya |
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| The names of the three domains. |
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| Archea, Bacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia |
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| The names of the six kingdoms. |
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| Flagellum, Cilia, Pseudopods |
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| The names of some structures used for locomotion in protists. |
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| The group of protists most similar to ancestor of animals. |
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Wind: pollen blown out, seeds like cottonwood and dandelion.
Animals: Insects, birds, bats are pollinators. Seeds are in eaten fruit, dispersed via defication. Also sticky seeds (burs, etc). |
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| Means of disperal in plants. |
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| Transformation, Transduction, Conjugation. |
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| The forms of horizontal gene transfer. |
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Sexual reproduction: meiosis (halves ploidy number, fertilization and recombination, induced genetic diversity)
Asexual reproduction: mitosis (cell division, ploidy number same) |
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| Compare and contrast sexual/asexual reproduction. |
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Nitrogen fixers.
Photosynthesis (carbon fixers.)
Decomposers.
Bacteria help digest food (e.g. cellulase producing bacteria in animals)
Bioremediation.
Biofactories. |
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| Examples of bacteria beneficial to humans. |
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| diploid sporophyte --> (meiosis) --> haploid spores --> (mitosis) --> gametophyte --> (produces) egg and sperm --> (fertilization --> zygote --> (mitosis) --> embryo --> (mitosis) --> sporophyte |
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| Generalized plant life cycle. |
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| A species with two separate sexes. |
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| A species with only one sex e.g. many plants. |
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Effective against bacteria.
They destroy the cell wall, made of peptidoglycan.
Antibiotics come from fungi. |
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| What organisms are antibiotics effective against? What part of the cell do they destroy? Where do they come from? |
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