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Biological Science
Study Guide: Ch. 15, 16, & 17.
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
11/21/2010

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Arthropods
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Phylum for honeybees
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1. Plants 2. Protists 3. Fungi 4. Animals
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Kingdoms possessing mitochondria
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mineral nutrients
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mycorrhiza and what filamentous fungi provide to plant
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gram ( + ) stains violet blue, gram ( - ) stains red.
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bacteria with thin cell walls, red Gram Stain
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a plant needs vascular tissue for efficient water dispersal
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plants and efficient water dispersal systems
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viruses contain DNA or RNA
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viral genetic material
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linnaeus of sweden
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person responsible for current scheme for grouping organisms
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releases haploid spores from the sorus
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what does the fern release during the sporophyte generation that germinates, becoming gametophytes?
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prokaryotes undergo binary fission
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what’s found in prokaryotes, not eukaryotes
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monocots have parallel veins on their leaves; flowers have 3 parts per whorl
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type of veins and flowers in monocots
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1. Style 2. Stigma 3. Ovary
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parts of the carpel
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virus
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what consists of segments of DNA/RNA surrounded by protein coat….
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Sepal
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part of flower green and leaf-like?
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Algae and fungus
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what makes up a lichen?
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1. Antibiotics 2. Citric acid 3. Cheese 4. Wine
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substances commercially produced by fungi
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1. First angiograms to develop. 2 oak trees are dicots. 3. Flower parts are in 4’s and 5’s. 4. Netlike, reticulate leaves.
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dicots (general question)
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1. Includes animals, plants fungi, and protists 2. Use endosymbiosis 3. Excludes prokaryotes.
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kingdoms within domain Eukarya
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mammalia
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class for the eastern gray squirrel
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to attract pollinators
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reason flowers evolved brighter colors, nectar, and fragrances
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1. Embryo 2. Endosperm 3. Protective cover
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the three parts to a seed…
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protists are neither animal, plant, nor fungi.
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the primary characteristic of protists
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Protists and plantsProtists and plants
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set of kingdoms capable of photosynthesis
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moss
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plants with primitive conducting systems
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protists undergo photosynthesis
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another photosynthetic kingdom question
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Cocci are round. Bacilli are square. Spirilla are wavy.
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spherical bacteria are called…
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taxon
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a group of organisms at a particular level in a system of classification is called (definition)
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bacteriophage
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viruses infecting bacterial cells
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anther; part of stamen
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flower structure holding the pollen
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pilus
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the bridge between bacterial cells in conjugation
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Purple bacteria – mitochondria, cyanobacteria, chloroplasts
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mitochondria and chloroplasts are descendents of…???
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they are made by sexual reproduction
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fungal phyla are distinguished primarily by..???
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Male gametophytes
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in a seed plant, the pollen grains are actually…??
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1. Plants 2. Animals 3. Protists 4. fungi
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kingdoms with fertilization and meiosis as part of the lifecycle…
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prokaryotes
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simplest and most abundant form of life on earth today…
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Promote seed dispersal
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primary function of a fruit??
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Dicots evolved before monocots
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dicots evolved before OR after monocots?
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protist
Definition
kingdom referred to as “artificial group” with distantly related organisms….
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Ray
Definition
first person to suggest a general definition for a species??
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Part of archaea
Definition
extreme thermophiles are…??
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Archaea and eukaryotes more closely relate to each other than to bacteria.
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correct evolutionary relationship among the three domains….
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petal-attracts pollinators
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the second whorl of flowers is comprised of…(its function?)
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imperfect fungi
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fungi not reproducing sexually
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binomial nomenclature
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scientific names used to identify organisms…
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cycads
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the longest-surviving group of gymnosperms
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10 million
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how many different species of organisms exist on earth today?
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mycellium
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a mass of fungal hyphae is called?
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liverworts & hornworts
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the first successful land plants (lacking vascular tissue)
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gymnosperms
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first seed plants
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RNA
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likely first macromolecules to form when cells first arose…
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false. Fungi can live on living things.
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fungi ONLY break down dead matter, not affecting living organisms…
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False. Archaea does not include neither bacteria nor viruses.
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Archaea include bacteria, not viruses…
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