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Exam: Diversity Flashcards

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Prokaryote vs eukaryote

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Prokaryote: no nucleus, simple structure, smaller
Eukaryotic: nucleus, complex structure, 100x bigger

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What is the binomial nomenclature classification for taxa.

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

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What are the three domains

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Eukaryotes, Bacteria, Archea

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What is bacteria (1/3 subjects of bacteria)

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Prokaryote, disease clauses, decomposer, makes Yougurt

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What is Archea (2/3 Bacteria)

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1st cell to evolve, lives in sewers, prokaryote,

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What is eukarya

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Plants, animals, fungi, protists

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What are methanogens

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Produce methane as a result of metabolism (cows and people)

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What are halophiles

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salty environments to survive (The Dead Sea)

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What are acidophiles

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Live in low acid areas (drains)

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10
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What are Psychrophiles

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Very cold environments (arctic)

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Structure of typical bacterium (cell #, pro or eu, cell wall)

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Unicellular, prokaryotic, cell wall of peptioglycan

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12
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What shape is cocci

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Round

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13
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What shape is bacilli

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Rod shaped

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14
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What is coco bacilli

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Fat and short

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What is vibrios

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Curved looks like a dildo

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What is spirilla

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Helical shaped and rigid body

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What are spirochetes

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Helical shapes but more tighter together and flexible

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What are the three extra bacteria shapes

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Star, rectanglular, plemomorphic

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19
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What was Diplo mean

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2

20
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What does tetrad mean

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4

21
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How much is sarciane

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8

22
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What is steplo

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Chain

23
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What is straphlo

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Grape

24
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What is binary fission

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Form of asexual reproduction

25
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What is conjunction

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Sexual reproduction , DNA (plasmids) passes from one bacterial cell to another structor

26
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What is Thermoacidoohiles

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Hot and acidic

27
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Thermophiles

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Temperature over 100

28
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Is a virus living or non living, why

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Virus is non living and attaches itself to living cells. They lack cytoplasm, organelles, and cell membranes.

29
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What is polyhendral

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Many sided

30
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What is helical

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Nucleic acid enclosed in hollow cyndrlicial capsid

31
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What is enveloped

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Roughly spherical

32
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What is complex

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Combo with another structure to make legs

33
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Describe the Lyric cycle

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Areal (attachment, entry, replication, assembly, lysis and release)

34
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What is lysogenic cycle

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Viral DNA joins host chromosomes and provirus is formed. Activated later to produce new virus in response to external trigger, then go into lytic cycle.

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What is the smallest independent living organism

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Bacteria

36
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Bacteria characteristics (cell #, pro or eu, DNA placement, cell wall)

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Unicellular, prokaryotic, circular DNA loop, wall of peptiglycon

37
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What are protists and the three types.

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Organisms that don’t fit into any other kingdom
Animal like protists,
Plant like protists
Fungi like protists

38
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What are the subsections of Animal like protists

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Phylum ciliophora
phylum zoomastigina
Phylum cerozoa
Phylum spurozoa

39
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What does Phylum ciliophora

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Cell with cilia

40
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What does phylum zoomastigina look like

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Has a flagella

41
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What does Phylum cerozoa look like

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Morphs into anything

42
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What does Phylum spurozoa

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Spores and parasitic

43
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What are the four types of fungi

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Parasite, Predatory, Mutatiative, Supcobial

44
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What is a parasite fungi

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Take over and feed on an organism until it does

45
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What is a Predatory fungi

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Fungi with trapping functions

46
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What is Mutualistic fungi

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Co exists with host

47
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What is saprobic fungi

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The common fungi

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