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When did Carolus Linnaeus do his work?

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Mid 1700s

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  1. What is the branch of biology dealing with the classification of organisms into groups is called?
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Taxonomy

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Which kingdom has heterotrophic members only with tissues and organs?

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Animalia

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Which kingdom include protozoans?

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Protista

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  1. Which kingdom contain organisms that have tissues and organs and carry on photosynthesis?
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Plantae

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Which kingdom contain molds?

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Fungi

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Which kingdom contains insects?

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Animalia

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Which kingdom contains trees and ferns?

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Plantae

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Small organisms that lack organized nuclei are placed by most modern classifications into which kingdom?

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Eubacteria

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  1. What criteria should be used in a biological key?
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Accuracy of key, person, generality/typicalness of specimen

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What must you do to classify an organism?

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Identify characteristics physical characteristics and assign them to a particular group according to precedent. Assign to group

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What are biological keys used for?

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Classifying and identifying organisms

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What is binomial nomenclature?

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The two Latin names used to identify an organism, by Carolus Linneaus

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What does the scientific name of an organism identify?

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Its genus and species

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  1. What’s the difference between a dog species and a dog variety?
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Varieties are within a species, and are the different kinds within the species, species bigger, variety specific

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How do you correctly write the genus-species name?

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Uppercase genus lowercase species

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As a general rule, what are the organisms called that are similar in structure, can mate, and can produce fertile offspring?

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Same species

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A dog that lives in the house all year has a thinner coat in the winter than a dog that lives outside. What is this an example of?

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Adaptation

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When do organisms migrate?

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When they move

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  1. How does an organism adapt to its environment?
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Changes in behavior

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Correctly use a biological key to identify organisms.

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Ok

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What is bacteria used to make commercially?

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Insulin, pickes, cheese, leather, suarkraut

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How do certain bacillus and spirillum bacteria move?

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Flagellum

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What is the thickened slime layer that some bacteria have called?

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capsule

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25. Which cellular organelles are absent in bacteria?
Nucleus, mitochondria, all membrane bound organelles
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What are mesosomes?
Indentation of bacterial membrane
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How do most bacteria reproduce?
Cell division
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When conditions are not right for growth, what might bacteria do?
Decrease in metabolic activity
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When conditions become unfavorable for life, what do some bacteria form?
endospores
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30. Organisms that are capable of making their own food are known as what?
Autotrophic
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Give examples of autotrophic bacteria.
Photosynthetic, chemosythetic
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Organisms that depend upon living things for food are called what?
Heterotrophic
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What is the heating process that kills bacteria in milk?
Pastuerization
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Most food spoilage results from the action of what organisms?
Bacteria
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35. What is the natural genetic transfer in bacteria called?
Conjugation
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Bacteria that use nonliving organic matter for food are called?
Saroprophytes
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Bacteria that cannot exist as saprophytes are called what?
Oblitigate parasites
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Microscopic cellular organisms that can live only inside a living cell are called what?
Intracellural, ricotejious
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What are bacteria that grow best in oxygen but also grow without oxygen?
Facultative anaerobes
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40. What group of organisms have characteristics similar to bacteria called?
Micoplasm
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What is essential for bacterial growth?
Moisture and pH, nutrition,temperature
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Who developed the smallpox vaccine?
Edward Jenner
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Which microorganisms are the smallest?
Viruses
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What forms a simple virus?
Protein coat
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45. What do simple viruses contain?
Core of either DNA or RNA, and a protein covering called a capsid, nucleic acids
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How do viruses reproduce?
By attaching to a cell, entering it, using the cells stuff to reproduce and multiply and then exiting the cell by destroying it and having it release many more
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Viruses destroy the cell they invade in a cycle known as the what?
Lytic or lysogenic cycle
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When a virus uses the chemical machinery of a cell, what does the virus act like?
Genes
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Viruses that do not cause lysis but do cause the cell to make and release virus particles are called what?
Persistent infection virus
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50. Viruses which do not immediately kill a cell but do change the cell's genetic make-up and alter the cell's characteristics are called
Transforming viruses
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What is the protein substance that defends cells of the host against viruses?
Interferon
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What are the poisonous protein substances that diffuse out of living pathogenic bacteria called?
Exotoxins
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What is the time between contacting a disease and the appearance of the first symptoms called?
Incubation period
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The redness, rise in temperature, and pain caused by the toxins of a pathogen are known as what?
Inflammation
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55. Water contamination is a common means of spreading which diseases?
Intestinal infections
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What is an immune carrier?
A seemingly healthy individual have the pathogens in them but are not affected by them but can spread them to others
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What are the structural defenses against diseases?
Skin, mucous membranes, eyelids, tear glands
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Name the cells that isolate pathogens and then engulf and digest them with enzymes.
Phagocytes
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What are some types of disorders listed in the text?
Hemophilia, deficiency diseases, injuries
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60. What can cause cancer?
Carcinogenic chemicals, radiation, viruses
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What can either cure or cause cancer?
Radiation
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Can autotrophs be either photosynthetic or chemosynthetic?
True
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What is transformation in bacteria?
A form of genetic transfer, living bacteria take other bacteria's DNA that is free in the environment
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What is blue-green algae (cyanobacteria)?
A photosythetic autotroph with chlorophyll A
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65. What are saprophytic bacteria?
Heterotrophic
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What type of cell are bacteria?
Prokaryotic
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Bacteria that carry on anaerobic respiration may produce what substances?
Methane, alcohol, lactic acid
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What is the lymphatic system a part of in the body's cellular defenses?
Non specific defense
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What does pus contain?
Dead bacteria and white blood cells and remaining fluids
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70. Are antibiotics always effective against different bacteria?
No
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What is a malignant tumor?
A tumor with rapid and chaotic growth
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72. Name in the correct order the 3 domains, the 6 kingdoms, and the 7 classification levels.
Domain- Archae, bacteria, eukaryia Kingdom- Eubacteria, archaebacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

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