Biology 1407 Test Practice for Test 1

Question 1

What is biology?

Answer 1

The study of life

Question 2

What does an object have to do in order to be considered living?

Answer 2

Reproduce/Growth and Development, Utilize Energy, Respond to it’s Environment, it’s composed of cells, and it uses DNA as their Genetic Code.

Question 3

Who developed the Scientific Classification? (Father of Modern Taxonomy)

Answer 3

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 4

Binomial Classification System

Answer 4

Used to name species

Question 5

What does MSDS stand for?

Answer 5

Material Safety Data Sheet

Question 6

What is the purpose of the MSDS?

Answer 6

It has all of the information for possible harmful chemicals that you are more than likely to use in your lab class.

Question 7

About how many years ago was the Protista Kingdom estimated to be on earth.

Answer 7

Estimated to live on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.

Question 8

Are the organisms in the kingdom protista unicellular or multi-cellular?

Answer 8

They are usually single celled.

Question 9

What domain does the kingdom protista lay in?

Answer 9

Eukaryota

Question 10

Are the organisums in the protista kingdom heterotrophs or autotrophs?

Answer 10

They are both. Some organisms are heterotrophic, autotrophic, or both.

Question 11

What is Zooplankton?

Answer 11

Microscopic animals in the water.

Question 12

What is Phytoplankton?

Answer 12

Microscopic plants in the water.

Question 13

What is cilia?

Answer 13

Short, hairlike things around a cell. Used in order to make the cell move.

Question 14

What are Rhizopoda?

Answer 14

a broad group of protozoan amoeboid organisms placed in the kingdom Protista.

Question 15

How do Amoebas move?

Answer 15

By the help of Pseudopod, they have no flagella or cilia.

Question 16

If an organism has cilia, what is it considered /called?

Answer 16

Ciliophora

Question 17

What is a unique thing that dinoflagellates have?

Answer 17

2 Flagella, and they can be bioluminescent.

Question 18

What protista causes red tides?

Answer 18

Dinoflagella

Question 19

Red tide

Answer 19

Toxin that makes a tide look red. Extremity toxic.

Question 20

How are Red Tides made?

Answer 20

Overgrowth of Dinoflagellas causes “Red Tides” since the Dinoflagellates produces that tocsin.

Question 21

Paralytic shellfish poisoning

Answer 21

Caused when bivalves (organisms with 2 hard shells ex, muscles, clams, etc.) are exposed to Dinoflagellates. It does not kill them but the tocsins are still in their bodies. Deadly when eaten.

Question 22

What is special about a Zoomastigophora?

Answer 22

they have between 1 - 1,000 flagella

Question 23

Where can Zoomastigophora be found?

Answer 23

• Intestinal parasites of fish and amphibians.

- Digesting protist in the gut of termites.

Question 24

What does Trypanosoma (type of zoomastigophera) cause?

Answer 24

African Sleeping Sickness (spread by the bite of a fly). Found in the blood. 120 days untreated can be deadly.

Question 25

Chaga’s Disease

Answer 25

Like the African sleeping sickness but in the Americas. Spread by the bite of a sand flee. It causes heart damage.

Question 26

Taxonomy

Answer 26

The branch of science devoted to the classification and naming of organisms.

Question 27

The meaning of Binomial.

Answer 27

Bi= two

Nominal=Name

Question 28

Name all of the elements in the classification system.

Answer 28

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Question 29

What is a Species?

Answer 29

A group of Individuals that can interbreed (Breed with a similar animal) and produce viable fertile offspring.

Question 30

What Kingdoms does the Five Kingdom Approach contain.

Answer 30

Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animelia

Question 31

What Kingdoms does the Six Kingdom Approach contain.

Answer 31

Kingdom Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animelia.