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Chapter 11 Flashcards

1
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What are structures that are easily seen with the unaided eye?

A

Macroscopic

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2
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What are structures that require a microscope to be seen?

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Microscopic

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3
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What are the smallest living units of all living things?

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Cells

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4
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Which English scientist was the first to see cells under a microscope?

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Robert Hooke

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5
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What states that all living things are composed of living units (called cells) and cell products; and that all cells come from pre-existing cells?

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Cell Theory

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6
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What is the flexible semipermeable membrane responsible for surrounding and protecting the other parts of the cell?

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Cell membrane

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7
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What is the largest portion of the cell?

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Cytoplasm

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8
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Where does most of the cellular respiration take place?

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Mitochondria

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9
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What is the “control center” at the center of the cell that is the most important part of the cell and is responsible for regulating all cell activities?

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Nucleus

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10
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What is the substance which stores information that determines the genetic traits of an organism?

A

DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)

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11
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What part of the microscope allows the amount of light passing through the slide to be controlled?

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Diaphragm

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12
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What is the surface on which the slide rests?

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Stage

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13
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What is the small lens through which the image is viewed?

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Eyepiece

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14
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What fine-tunes the focus after focusing with the coarse-adjustment knob?

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Fine-adjustment knob

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15
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What is a slide with a specimen covered by a drop of water?

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Wet mount

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16
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What is the sturdy, protective support structure that surrounds the cell membrane?

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Cell wall

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17
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What are the organelles that perform photosynthesis?

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Chloroplasts

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18
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What are the storage spaces withing a cell that house food materials, fluids, and minerals?

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Vacuoles

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19
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What is the transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring?

A

Heredity

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20
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What are units of hereditary information stored on the cells’ chromosomes?

A

Genes

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21
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What is the study of heredity?

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Genetics

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22
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What is the process by which a cell divides to form two new cells?

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Mitosis

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23
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What is a single fertilized egg cell?

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Zygote

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24
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What is the process by which the cell makes a copy of the DNA before dividing?

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Replication

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25
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What are protein-producing factories in the cytoplasm?

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Ribosomes

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26
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What is the process in which the DNA information of a single gene is copied into a molecule of RNA?

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Transcription

27
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What is the process in which RNA is converted by a ribosome into a protein?

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Translation

28
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What are the different forms of genes called?

29
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What is the term for two identical alleles for the same gene?

A

Homozygous

30
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What is the term for two different alleles for the same gene?

A

Heterozygous

31
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What shows up in the offspring even if an allele for a different trait is also present?

A

Dominant trait

32
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What is a trait that does not appear in the offspring when the dominant allele is present?

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Recessive trait

33
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What is the actual combination of alleles that the organism has for a particular trait?

34
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What is the appearance that results from the genotype?

35
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What principle states that when two heterozygous organisms are crossed, the offspring is equally likely to receive either allele?

A

Law of segregation

36
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What states that the allele inherited for one trait is unrelated to the allele inherited for another?

A

Law of independent assortment

37
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What is a chart that allows us to visualize all possible combinations of alleles that could result from a cross?

A

Punnett square

38
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What is used to study genetic traits in humans and other long-lived organisms?

A

pedigree chart

39
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What is a diverse group of of the smallest chlorophyll-containing organisms found in nearly every body of water?

40
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What is a well-known colonial green alga?

41
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What is a filamentous green alga?

42
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What yellow algae are the most numerous of all algae?

43
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What is the largest of the brown algae?

44
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What is the group of heterotrophic plant-like organisms?

45
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What is the study of fungi?

46
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What is the largest group of fungi?

47
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What is a colorless organism that eats foods containing sugar?

48
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By what process do yeasts reproduce?

49
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What are animal-like organisms made of a single cell?

50
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Who is known as the “Father of Microbiology”?

A

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

51
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What are protozoa that move using a ling, whip-like organ of locomotion?

A

Flagellates

52
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What are common flagellates found in freshwater lakes, ponds, and streams?

53
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What is the elastic “holding tank” that collects disposes of excess water?

A

Contractile Vacuole

54
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What is the deadly disease casued by one variety of trypanosome and transmitted to humans and animals by bites from the tsetse fly?

A

African sleeping sickness

55
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What are protozoa that move by means of pseudopods (“false feet”)?

A

Sarcodines

56
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What is the best known sarcodine?

57
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What is a space for storing and digesting food?

A

Food vacuole

58
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What are slipper-shaped protozoa?

59
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What is the term for spore-forming protozoa?

60
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What is the parasite that causes malaria in humans?

A

Plasmodium

61
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What are single-celled organisms that have no organized nuclei?

A

Prokaryotes

62
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What organisms live in the air, soil, and water and can be harmful, helpful, or neither?

63
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What is one of the best-known species of bacteria that has provided research that benefits our current understanding of heredity?

64
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What are hardy prokaryotes that thrive in environments that most other organisms couldn’t survive in?

A

Blue-green Algae (cyanobacteria)

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