Exploring Biology Chapters 1-2

Question 1

What do yeast cells consume as food?

Answer 1

sugar

Question 2

single-celled life that includes paramecium, amoeba, and euglena

Answer 2

protista

Question 3

multi-cellular life that makes food by photosynthesis

Answer 3

plant

Question 4

Lichen is a layer of algae sandwiched between two layers of

Answer 4

lichen

Question 5

To keep mushrooms in the plant kingdom, scientists described mushrooms as plants without

Answer 5

chlorophyll

Question 6

multi-cellular life that can move and has sense organs

Answer 6

animal

Question 7

multi-cellular life that includes mushrooms

Answer 7

fungi

Question 8

Today, biologists classify mushrooms as members of the

Answer 8

fungi kingdom

Question 9

The one that can change its shape is the

Answer 9

amoeba

Question 10

The single most deadly protozoa disease is

Answer 10

malaria

Question 11

single-celled life without a nucleus; one form causes Black Death (plague)

Answer 11

bacteria

Question 12

Fungi that are growing on bread and are just visible to the unaided eye and look like miniature mushrooms are most likely:

Answer 12

mold

Question 13

The above-ground stalk and umbrella of a mushroom is used to

Answer 13

release spores

Question 14

non-living genetic material that only comes alive inside a living cell

Answer 14

virus

Question 15

Single-celled algae that surround their cell wall with a coating of silicon dioxide are:

Answer 15

diatoms

Question 16

Louis Pasteur realized yeast cells were alive when he saw them

Answer 16

grow and reproduce

Question 17

The first scientist to see the little life in a drop of canal water was

Answer 17

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 18

At first, a euglena was called a plant because it

Answer 18

had chlorophyll