Exam 1 Flashcards

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Prokaryotes

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Single celled organism

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Gradualism

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Occurrence over a period of time

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3
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Eukaryotes

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Multicellular organism

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Speciation

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Genetic changes over time

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Phylogeny

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Classification of organisms

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Anaerobes

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Do not require oxygen to live

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Evolution

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Scientific viewpoint

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Creationism

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Religious viewpoint

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Aerobes

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Require oxygen to live

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10
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Linnaeus

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Binomial nomenclature

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Heterotrophic

Autotrophy

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Organisms called mixotrophs can obtain nutrients and energy from

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Diplomonads

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Protists that have two equal size nuclei and multiple flagella

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Parabasalids

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They have flagella and an undulating membrane

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Kinetoplastid

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Trypanosoma causes sleeping sickness and uses a “bait-and-switch” tatic to avoid detection by its hosts antibodies and it is a

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Apicomplexan

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In organism that is a parasite that causes malaria and has a complex of organelles at one end used for attacking pray belongs in the

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16
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Euglenid

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An autotrophic/photosynthetic organism that has a light detector and chloroplast as well as two flagella

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Dinoflagellate

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An organism with two flagella arranged on perpendicular grooves and emits a bioluminescent glow when disturbed

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18
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Ciliate

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A paramecium is a good example of a And exhibits many hair like cilia on its surface. Conjugation and reproduction are separate parts of their life cycle

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19
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Stramenopiles

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A group that has both hairy and smooth flagella

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Alveolates

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Have membrane bound sacs beneath the plasma membrane

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Euglenozoans

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Have flagella with internal spiral or crystalline rods

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Golden Algae

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Algal group having yellow and brown carotenoids and are photosynthetic

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Brown Algae

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These are photosynthetic and are the largest and most complex of the stramenopile group

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Diatoms

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Organisms having silica wall and during mitosis the organism splits and each half generates a new half to fit

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25
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Oomycetes

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These cause potato blight and tend to be decomposers and parasites

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Cercozoans

Radiolarians

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Have thread like pseudopodia

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27
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Amoebozoans

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Have lobe-shaped pseudopodia

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Cellular

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Slime molds can function as single cells or can form aggregates of cells that function as a unit if food is depleted

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29
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Plasmodial

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Slime molds are brightly pigmented and have a single mass of cytoplasm with many nuclei

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30
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Green Algae

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Are photosynthetic and contain many chloroplasts

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Red Algae

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Are photosynthetic and contain phycoerythrin

32
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Lichen

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Symbiotic relationship between fungus and algae
Usually neither can grow on their own
Can grow and harsh environment due to relationship, fungus gets water and minerals and other carries out photosynthesis

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Micorrhizae

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Symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi

Fungus helps obtain more nutrients by increasing surface area, plant also provides nutrients.

34
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Exoenzymes

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Hydrolytic enzymes released by fungi into their surroundings

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Chitin

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Component of fungi cell walls

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Parasites

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Absorbs nutrients for living hosts

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Saprobes

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Absorb of nutrients from dead matter

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Mycelium

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An interwoven mass of fungal hyphae that surrounds the material on which the fungus feeds

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Septa

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An incomplete cross wall dividing hyphae into separate cells

40
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Coenocytic cells

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Cells that lack septa

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Ectomycorrhiza

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Wraps itself around the plant roots

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Haustoria

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Specialized hyphae that penetrate cell walls

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Phermones

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Responsible for attracting adjacent hyphae to different mating types

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Plasmogamy

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The union of the cytoplasm of two parent mycelium

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Facultative fungi

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Maybe grown without a host

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Obligate Fungi

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Must have a host

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Lichens

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A symbiotic association of millions of photosynthetic microorganisms held in a mass of fungal hyphae

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Mychorrizae

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A relationship between fungi and roots of plants

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Karyogamy

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Fusion of nuclei contributed by two fungi individuals

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Dikaryon

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A hyphae with two haploid nuclei

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Chytrids

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Unique among fungi and having flagellated spores called zoospores

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Zygomycetes

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Plasmogamy of these fungi produce is a sturdy structure called a zygosporangium

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Basidiomycytes

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Bear with spores on a pedestal

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Ascomycetes

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Bear with spores in a sac

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Pilobolus

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A zygomycete that uses a light spot to aim it’s sporangia toward a good food source

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Miscorspordia

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Unicellular parasites of animals and protist that do not have conventional mitochondria

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Arbuscular

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A distinct of endomycorrhizae formed by glomeromycetes

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Soredia

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Small clusters of hyphae with embedded algae

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Gradualism

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Profound geological changes took place through the cumulative effect of slow but continuous process identical to those currently operating

60
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Artificial selection

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The process of deliberate selecting and breeding individuals with desired traits

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Population

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According to evolutionary Theory The smallest entity that can evolve

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Homologus

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Anatomical resemblance that represent variations on a structural seem present in a common ancestor

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Gene flow

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Movement of alleles among populations

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Genetics Drift

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Allele frequencies fluctuate unpredictability from one generation to the next

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Stabilizing

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The type of selection occurs in both the smallest and largest individuals contribute if you were offspring the next generation

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Disruptive

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The largest and smallest individuals contribute more offspring than those at the middle

67
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Quantitative

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Characters such as height are those the vary along a continua within a population

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Biological species concept

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Defining a species as a population whose members have the potential to interbreed in nature and produce viable fertile offspring

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Macroevolution

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Evolutionary changes resulting in a speciation

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Microevolution

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Study of adaptive changes within a population

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Prezygotic

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spatial isolation is an example of this barrier

72
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Postzygotic

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Does not develop into a viable fertile adult or if the hybrids are vigorous yet sterile

73
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Ecological species concept

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Defining a species in terms of the set of environmental resources they species uses and it’s role in the biological community

74
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Horizontal gene transfer

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The movement of genes from one genome to another