Chapters 1-2

Question 1

What can plants do that animals cannot?

Answer 1

Make food from non-living material (sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water)

Question 2

What organisms are in kingdom fungi?

Answer 2

Mushrooms, puffballs, yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles

Question 3

What important function in nature do mushrooms serve?

Answer 3

Decomposition- break down dead trees and other plant life, returning to the soil

Question 4

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer 4

Alexander Fleming

Question 5

What is symbiosis? Give an example from Chapter 2

Answer 5

Symbiosis is two organisms that live together to the benefit of both. Example: lichen- a layer of algae sandwiched between two layers of fungi. Algae produce food for the fungi. Fungi shield the algae and break rocks into minerals the algae can use for food production.

Question 6

What characteristic is shared by all members of kingdom Protista?

Answer 6

All protista have only a single cell.

Question 7

Name the five kingdom.

Answer 7

Plant, Animal, Fungi, Protista, Bacteria

Question 8

What does anaerobic mean?

Answer 8

LIfe without air