2nd vocab quiz

Question 1

Alga

Answer 1

A general term for any species of photosynthetic protist, including both unicellular and multicellular forms.

Question 2

Amphibian

Answer 2

Member of the tetrapod class Amphibia, including salamanders, frogs and caecillians

Question 3

Angiosperm

Answer 3

a flowering plant, which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary

Question 4

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 4

Body symmetry in which a central longitude plane divides the body into two equal but opposite halves

Question 5

Binary Fission

Answer 5

A method of asexual reproduction in single celled organisms in which the cell grows to roughly double its size and then divides into two cells.

Question 6

Budding

Answer 6

unicellular yeast bud off new cells

Question 7

Cellulose

Answer 7

A structural polysaccharide of plant cell walls, consisting of glucose monomers joined by B glycosydic linkages

Question 8

Chemoautotroph

Answer 8

obtain energy from minerals

Question 9

Chemoheterotroph

Answer 9

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Question 10

Chitin

Answer 10

a structural polysacchuride, consisting of amino sugars monomers, founds in many fungal cell walls and in the exoskeletons of all arthropods

Question 11

Extremeophile

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AN organism that lives in environmental conditions so extreme that few other species can survive there.

Question 12

Extreme Halophile

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an organism that lives in a highly salty environment

Question 13

Extreme Thermophile

Answer 13

An organism that lives in hot environments

Question 14

Facultative Anaerobe

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An organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present but that switches to anaerobic respiration or fermentation if oxygen is not present.

Question 15

Flower

Answer 15

In an angiosperm, a specialized shoot with up to four sets of modified leaves, bearing structures that function in sexual reproduction

Question 16

Fragmentation

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a means of asexual reproduction whereby a single parent breaks into parts that regenerate into whole new individuals

Question 17

Gram-Negative

Answer 17

Describing the group of bacteria that have a cell wall that is structurally more complex and contains less peptidoglycan than the cell wall of gram-positive bacteria.

Question 18

Gram-Positive

Answer 18

Describing the group of bacteria that have a cell wall that is structurally less complex and contains more peptidoglycan than the cell wall of gram-negative bacteria.

Question 19

Gymnosperm

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a vascular plant that bears naked seed (not enclosed in protective chambers

Question 20

Leaf

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the main photosynthetic organ of vascular plants

Question 21

Mammal

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member of the class mammalia, amniotes that have hair and mammary glands

Question 22

Methanogen

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an organism that produces methane as a waste of product of the way it obtains energy. All known methanogens are in domain Archaea

Question 23

Mutualism

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a +/+ ecological interaction that benefits each of there interacting species

Question 24

Obligate Aerobe

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must have oxygen

Question 25

Obligate Anaerobe

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cannot live in presence of oxygen, it will kill them

Question 26

parasite

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an organism that feeds on the cell contents, tissues, or body fluids of another species while in or one the host organism. Parasites harm but usually do not kill their hosts

Question 27

Phloem

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vascular plant tissue consisting of living cells arranged into elongated tubes that transport sugar and other organic nutrients throughout the plant

Question 28

Photoautotroph

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Obtain energy thru sunlight

Question 29

Protozoan

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animal like protists

Question 30

Peptidoglycan

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a type of polymer in bacterial cell walls consisting of modified sugars cross linked by short polypeptides

Question 31

Radial Symmetry

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symmetry in which the body is shaped like a pie or barrel and can be divided into mirror imaged halves by any plane thru a central axis

Question 32

Reptile

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member of the clade of amniotes that includes lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodillians, and birds

Question 33

Root

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an organ in vascular plants that anchors the plant and enables it to absorb water and minerals from the soil

Question 34

Seed

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an adaptation of some terrestrial plants of an embryo packaged along with a store of food within a protective coat

Question 35

Seedless vascular plant

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.an informal name for a plant that has vascular tissue but lacks seeds. Seedless vascular plants for a paraphyletic group that indicates the phyla Lycophyta and monilophylia

Question 36

Stem

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a vascular plant organ consisting of an alternating system of nodes and internodes that support the leaves and reproductive system

Question 37

Vascular plant

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.a plant with vascular tissue. Vascular plants include all living plant species except liverworts, mosses, and hornworts

Question 38

Xylem

Answer 38

.vascular tissue consisting of tubular dead cells that conduct most of the water and minerals upward from the roots to the rest of the plant