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1
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Proteins that bind with …….. And good for

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Receptors on host cells, mimicry

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Many…… Spikes extend from coat so fast that our …. Cannot keep up

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Glycoprotein immune system

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What is made from lysis

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DOM

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Largest virus

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Diameter: 440 nm in marine amebas

DNA has 1120 genes , more than some bacteria

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Characteristics of both bacteria and archaea , nuc?, cell wall

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Prokaryotic
Single chromosome
Most cell wall
Great metabolic diversity

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Archaeans are normally

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Extremophiles

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What can archaea tolerate wide ranges of … And where found

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Salinity, temp. And desiccation

Hydrothermal vents and salt flats

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What size are bacteria normally

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Microscopic

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Largest bacteria

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Thiomargarita

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Important job of bacteria

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Detritus

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Stromalites are a product of what

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Bacteria Cyanobacteria build up of calcium carbonate billion years old

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How does algae eat

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Photosynthesis, single celled animal like traits

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What did algae used to be put under

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Protista because of animal like traits and lack of plant structures

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How do diatoms eat, look like, live together or alone, how many cells , why important ?

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Photosynthesis, shell of frustule, unicellular, live alone but can form colonies, important primary producer

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Most diatoms are…. Store excess energy as , what toxin do they reproduce, and makes up …. Earth

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Planktonic, oil, Domoic acid that accumulates in tissues, diatomaceous earth

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Diatoms reproduction

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Cellular division, cast off one side of frustule becoming smaller and smaller, cast of frustule and secrete entire new frustule

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Dinoflagellates: where do they live, how do they eat, shape reinforced by, flagella?, reproduction…. Special feature

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Most in marine, photosynthetic, plates of cellulose, 2 flagella in grooves, cellular division, bioluminescent Bahia fosforescente

18
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Zooxanthellae are what type of organism, they are diff. From typical ones because

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Dinoflagellate, non motile no flagella

19
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What organisms make red tides, lack chloroplasts, and are part of pfiesteria

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Dinoflagellates, parasitic, serious toxins

20
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Who has blooms which is a result of what, what gets its name from this and are they harmful

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Diatoms and dinoflagellates , high levels of nutrients in the water , Red Sea, yes

21
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Unicellular algal plankton

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Sillicoflagellates, coccolithophores
Star shaped skeleton of silica, two flagella of diff. Length
Shells of calcium carbonate

22
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What are under Protozoa

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Foraminifera so, radiolarians, fungi, Ciliates

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Foraminiferans: where do they live, what are they made of, how do they move and eat, what are they contributors of

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Exclusively marine, rocky or sandy bottoms, shells of calcium carbonate, pseudopods capture minute food part. Like phytoplankton , calcareous material on coral reefs

24
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What are forums responsible for

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Pink beaches

25
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Radiolarians are….. And mostly what size, what are they made of , how do they eat

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Planktonic, microscopic, shells of silica, pseudopods like forams

26
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Connected colonies of radiolarians cane reach a. Size of

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Meters

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Ciliates : move/eat, live as ….., what are they made of, live on,

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Cilia, solitary cells, shells of organic debris, hard substrate

28
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Freshwater cilia and planktonic one

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Paramecium, tinntinids : vase like Lorica built from sand grains

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Fungi: mostly, eat, lack, ,most of 1500 species, were are they important, symbiosis called, where do they live

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Multicellular, by breaking down other things heterotroph, microscopic, mangroves, lichens with Cyanobacteria, rocky shorelines or substrate

30
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Cliffs of Dover are made by

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Foraminiferans ooze

31
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Which two are prokaryotic

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Bacteria and archaea

32
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Viruses are …..cellular …..agents with what two basic characteristics

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Non, infectious
Not capable of rep. Without host cell
Nucleic acid core: DNA or RNA

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