Final Exam Flashcards
What’s the common protist and what disease do they cause?
Sleeping sickness and malaria
Define a Protist
Large and diverse group of eukaryotic microorganism
How are protists classified?
By the way they obtain nutrients / taxonomy
Plantlike protists must contain what to be able to carry out Photosynthesis?
Chlorophyll
How do fungus like protists get their energy?
From other organisms
What is the definition of a protists?
Uni/multicellular organism feeding on organic matter.
Fungus living in the vaginal canal are in constant competition with what other organisms?
Bacteria
How do you most fungi feed? What other ways that some fungi feed?
Nutrients from decaying matter & soil parasites.
How do fungi reproduce
Through spores
What is the most important role of fungi in our environment?
Decomposition
When yeast ferments, what gas is it putting of to allow bread to rise
CO2
What does the common fungi produce?
Athletes foot and ringworm
What are fungi cell walls composed of?
Chitin
Define a plant
Thing that goes through photosynthesis.
What are the major functions of stems in plants?
Support
What all does the seed contain?
Gas/light
What are lichens and what do they come from?
Comes from algae lives in fungi filaments
What are the main functions of leaves?
To collect sunlight and gases
What are the three types of tropisms?
Phototropism, Geotropism, Thigmotropism