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Chapter 15 Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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Earth was formed about ____ years ago

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4.6 billion years ago

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2
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Having cells that lack true nuclei

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Prokaryotes

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Prokaryotes evolved by about

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3.5 billion years

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Prokaryotes began oxygen production about 2.7 billion years ago as a result of ______ by _____ prokaryotes

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Photosynthesis ; autotrophic

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Composed of one or more cells that contain nuclei anf many other membrane bound organelles absent in prokaryotic cells

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Eukaryotes

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Eukaryotes first evolved from the

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Prokaryotic community

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A host cell containing even smaller prokaryotes

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Prokaryotic community

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8
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Descendants of smaller prokaryotes

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Mitochondria

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9
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Are descendants of smaller prokaryotes of plants and algae

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Chloroplasts

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10
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Multicellular eukaryotes first evolved at least

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1.2 billion years ago

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11
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About 540 million years ago, resulted in the evolution of all major animal body plans and all major groups

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Cambrian explosion

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About ____ years ago plants, fungi, and insects began to colonize the land

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500 million

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13
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____ years ago, flowering plants, birds, and even mammals, including primates, began to dominate the landscape and this is when

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65 million years ago and this is when dinosaurs went extinct

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14
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The origin of humans occurred

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195,000

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15
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The earth of 4 billion years was still a

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Violent turmoil

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16
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Volcanic eruptions belched gases into the atmosphere such as

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Carbon dioxide

Methane

Ammonia

Other nitrogen compounds

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17
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Life comes from the interaction of

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Chemicals and molecules

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18
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To learn how life originated from non living substances, biologists draw on research from the fields of

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Chemistry

Geology

Physics

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19
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The structures and functions of life depend on more complex organic molecules such as

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Sugars

Fatty acid

Amino acid

Nucleotides

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20
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I’m 1953, ____ devised an apparatus to stimulate conditions thought to prevail on early earth

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Stanley Miller

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21
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Prokaryotes are

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Unicellular

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22
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Scientists are testing other hypothesis for the organic molecules on earth including the hypothesis that life may have begun in

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Submerged volcanoes or deep sea hydrothermal vents

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23
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Scientists are testing other hypothesis for the organic molecules on earth including the hypothesis that life may have begun in

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Meteorites were the sources of Earth’s first organic molecules

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24
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The community of microorganisms that live in our bodies which help to supply vitamins, extract nutrition from food, decompose dead skin cells, guard against disease causing intruders

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Microbiota

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25
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Prokaryotes also form our

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Microbiota

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26
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Help decompose dead organisms and other waste materials returning vital chemical elemental such as nitrogen to the environment

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Prokaryotes

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27
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Lack a membrane enclose nucleus

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Prokaryotic cells

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28
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Lack other membrane enclose organelles

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Prokaryotic

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29
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Typically have cell walls exterior to their plasma membranes and display range of diversity

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Prokaryotic

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30
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Three most common shapes of prokaryotes

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Cocci

Bacilli

Spiral

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31
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In many natural environments, prokaryotes attach to surfaces in a highly organized colony

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Biofilm

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32
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May consist of one or several species of prokaryotes

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Biofilm

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May include protists and fungi

34
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Can show a division of labor and defense against invaders

35
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Prokaryotics can form on almost any type of surface including

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Rocks

Metal

Plastic

Organic material including teeth

36
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Many prokaryotes can reproduce by dividing in half by

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Binary fission

37
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Many prokaryotes can reproduce at ____ if conditions are favorable

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At very high rates

38
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Environments are usually limiting in resources such as

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Food and space

39
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Also produce metabolic waste products that may eventually pollute the colony’s environment

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Prokaryotes

40
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The metabolic talents of prokaryotes make them excellent symbolic partners with

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Animals

Plants

Fungi

41
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a close association between organisms of 2 or more species

42
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“Living together”

43
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Prokaryotes can also promote the breakdown of

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Organic waste and dead organisms

44
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The use of organisms to remove pollutants from water, air, or soil

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Bioremediation

45
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The use of prokaryotic decomposers to treat our sewage

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Bioremediation

46
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Has become an important tool for cleaning up toxic chemicals released into the soil and water by industrial processes

A

Bioremediation

47
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Naturally occurring prokaryotes capable of degrading pollutants such as

A

Oil

Solvents

Pesticides

48
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Naturally occurring prokaryotes capable of degrading pollutants such as oil, solvents, and pesticides are often present in

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Contaminated soil

49
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By comparing diverse prokaryotes at the molecular level, biologists have identified two major branches of prokaryotic evolution called

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Bacteria and archaea

50
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Life is organized into three domains

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Bacteria

Archaea

Eukarya

51
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Abundant in many habitats including places where few other organisms can survive

52
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One group of archaea live in very hot water

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Thermophiles

53
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One group of archaea thrives in such environments such as
Utah’s Great Salt Lake
Dead Sea
Seawater evaporating ponds used to produce salt

A

Halophiles

54
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“Salt lovers”

A

Halophiles

55
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One group of archaea live in anaerobic (oxygen free) environments and give off methane as a waste product

A

Methanogens

56
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Abundant in the mud at the bottom of lakes and swamps

A

Methanogens

57
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Many municipalities collect this methane and use it as a source of energy

A

Methanogens

58
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Great numbers of methanogens also inhabit the digestive tracts of animals

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Methanogens

59
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Bacteria and other organisms that cause disease

60
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Most pathogenic bacteria cause disease by producing

61
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Proteins that bacterial cells secrete into their environment

62
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Exotoxins are proteins that bacterial cells ___ into their environment

63
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Chemical components of the outer membrane of certain bacteria

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Endotoxins

64
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Generally the most effective way to prevent bacterial disease

A

Sanitation

65
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Researchers speculate that in some aspects of food processing might be involved in our

A

Intestinal microbes

66
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___ of an obese person would increase the amount of body fat in mice

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Intestinal microbiota

67
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The fossil record indicated that the first eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotes around

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2 billion years ago

68
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These primal eukaryotes were ancestral to all other eukaryotes

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Plants

Fungi

Animals

69
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A common inhabitants of pond water can change its mode of nutrition, depending on availability of light and nutrients

70
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This protists is capable of photosynthesis and heterotrophy

71
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Protists that live primarily by ingesting food

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Protozoans

72
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Protozoans with flagella

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Flagellates

73
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Typically living nonparasitic but some are nasty parasites such as Giardia, a common westborne parasite that causes severe diaherria

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Protozoans with flagellates

74
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Great flexibility in their body shape

75
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The absence of permanent organelles for locomotion

76
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Most species move and feed by means of ____, temporary extensions of the cell

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Pseudopodia

77
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Other Protozoans with pseudopodia include ___, which have shells

78
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Provide movement of the protist and sweep food into the protist’s mouth

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Ciliates (cilia)

hair like

79
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Mostly freelivinh (nonparasitic) such as the freshwater ciliate

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Paramecium

80
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Includes heterotrophs and mixtrophs

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Paramecium

81
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Named for their grass green chloroplasts

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Green algae

82
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A hollow ball of flagellated cells that are very similar to certain unicellular green algae

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