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Biology
Undergraduate 1
04/30/2009

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What is the present system of naming organisms called?
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Binomial nomenclature
Term
Severall classes occur within a single
Definition
Phylum
Term
What is the best modern definition of a species?
Definition
Similar organisme that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
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What are prokaryotes?
Definition
Monera
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How do viruses create more viruses?
Definition
By directing a host cell to make new viruse.
Term
Spherical bacteria that occur in clumps are called?
Definition
Staphylococci
Term
what is cause by a virus?
Definition
AIDS, Warts, Genital herpes
Term
Name a stain that is frequently used in indentification of bacteria?
Definition
Gram stain
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Malaria has always been associated with swampy portions of the world. Malaria is caused by?
Definition
A protist
Term
Name the structure involved in movement of Amoeba?
Definition
Pseudopod
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What is the characteristic of practically all protists?
Definition
Single celled
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What is the characteristic of practically all protists?
Definition
Single celled
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Name the thread-like structural unit of most fungi
Definition
Hypha
Term
How do fungi resemble animals?
Definition
1,No chloroplasts
2,Store carbohydrate as glycogen
3,Heterotrophic
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What group of fungi includes the organisms that cause athlete's foot?
Definition
Fungi imperfecti
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What group of organisms includes brewer's or baker's yeast?
Definition
Ascomycetes
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What constantly threatens the wheat supply of the world?
Definition
Rusts
Term
What is seen in both fungi and plants?
Definition
Cell walls
Term
What is caused by an ascomycete?
Definition
Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight and apple scab
Term
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
Term
What have radial symmetry?
Definition
Echinodermata
Term
What has a pseudocoelom?
Definition
Nematoda
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