Chapter 9 Test Flashcards
Fungi and bacteria are important in the natural environment because they
decompose waste
Viruses reproduce this way
by forcing their host cells to make more viruses
All fungi produce these
spores
Chemicals that the body produces to protect itself against viruses
interferons
Bacteria reproduce asexually by ________ ________
binary fission
Malaria is caused by
Plasmodium
This organism performs photosynthesis
algae
This is prokaryotic
bacteria
This fungi would be most likely to feed on nonliving organic matter
saprophytic
Paramecia move using ______
cilia
These bacteria are producers
cyanobacteria
These are the two organisms that lichen is made of
fungus and alga
A group of unicellular protists living together
colony
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria are different because of this
They include organisms that are prokaryotic
Animal like protists
protozoans
Plantlike protists
algae
long, whiplike hairs
flagella
short, hairlike projections
cilia
an overpopulation of dinoflagellates
red tide
asexual reproduction in Spirogyra
fragmentation
a type of sexual reproduction
conjugation
The kingdom that contains true bacteria and cyanobacteria
Eubacteria
A nonliving structure with nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat
virus
The kingdom whose members live in extreme environments
Archaebacteria
Rod shaped bacterium
bacillus
The kingdom that contains algae and protozoans
Protista
The structures amoebas used for movement
psuedopods
Long filaments of a fungus
hyphae
A spherical bacterium
coccus
The term for a virus that remains inactive inside its host cell
latent
A ___________ protist in a colony would die if it were separated from the colony
multicellular
The gills on a mushroom are used for
spore production
Mycorrhizae are _________ relationships between plant roots and fungi
symbiotic
The antibiotic penicillin comes from this
fungus
