Kingdoms Key Terms

Question 1

Alga

Answer 1

A photosynthetic plant-like protist

Question 2

Amphibian

Answer 2

Member of the tetrapod class Amphibia (salamanders, frogs, and caecilians)

Question 3

Angiosperm

Answer 3

A flowering plant, which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary. They produce a flower and produce their seeds within a fruit

Question 4

Bilateral Symmetry

Answer 4

Body form divisible into two halves that are mirror images.

Question 5

Binary Fussion

Answer 5

Asexual reproduction that produces identical offspring

Question 6

Budding

Answer 6

Fungi reproduction in which unicellular yeast buds off of new cells.

Question 7

Cellulose

Answer 7

A structural polysaccharide of cell walls, consisting of glucose monomers joined by B-1, 4-glycosidic linkages

Question 8

Chemoautotroph

Answer 8

Obtains energy from minerals

Question 9

Chemoheterotroph

Answer 9

An organism that must obtain both energy and carbon by consuming organic molecules.

Question 10

Chitin

Answer 10

What fungi cell walls are made of

Question 11

Extremeophile

Answer 11

A prokaryote that lives in extreme environment. They include methanogens, extreme halophiles, and extreme thermophiles.

Question 12

Extreme Halophile

Answer 12

Salt-loving prokaryotes, generates ATP from salt (found in Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea)

Question 13

Extreme Thermophile

Answer 13

A prokaryote that thrives in hot environments (high acid contents, high temperatures)

Question 14

Facultative Anaerobe

Answer 14

Lives with or without oxygen, prefers no oxygen

Question 15

Flower

Answer 15

Plant structure that is the main reproduction system

Question 16

Fragmentation

Answer 16

Fungi reproduction in which fungi are physically broken apart and the pieces grow into new fungi.

Question 17

Gram-Negative

Answer 17

Smaller amounts of peptidoglycan, with more complex cell walls. More deadly then gram-positive, and antibiotic resistant.

Question 18

Gram-Positive

Answer 18

Simpler cell walls with large amounts of peptidoglycan

Question 19

Gymnosperm

Answer 19

Produce seeds in cones, or seeds that aren’t enclosed in fruit

Question 20

Leaf.

Answer 20

The main photosynthetic organ of vascular plants.

Question 21

Mammal

Answer 21

Member of the class Mammalia, amniotes with mammary glands that produce milk.

Question 22

Methanogen

Answer 22

Converts H2 and CO2 into methane; lives in anaerobic conditions

Question 23

Mutalism

Answer 23

A symbolic relationship in which both participants benefit

Question 24

Obligate Aerobe

Answer 24

An organism that requires oxygen for cellular respiration and cannot live without it.

Question 25

Obligate Anaerobe

Answer 25

An organism that cannot use oxygen and is poisoned by it.

Question 26

Parasite

Answer 26

An organism that benefits by living in or on another organism at the expense of the host.

Question 27

Phloem

Answer 27

Type of vessel that transports nutrients and sugars.

Question 28

Photoautotroph

Answer 28

Obtain energy from sunlight

Question 29

Protozoan

Answer 29

Another name for animal-like protist

Question 30

Peptidoglycan

Answer 30

Molecule of protein and sugar found in some bacterial cell walls.

Question 31

Radical Symmetry

Answer 31

Body form of which the body is divisible into equal halves through various planes.

Question 32

Reptile

Answer 32

Member of the clade of amninotes (tuatara, lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodilians, and birds)

Question 33

Root

Answer 33

Anchors plants in the ground, absorbs water and nutrients, and stores sugars.

Question 34

Seed

Answer 34

An adaptation for terrestrial plants consisting of an embryo packaged along with a store of food within a resistant coat

Question 35

Seedless Vascular Plant

Answer 35

They do not produce seeds, they reproduce using spores.

Question 36

Stem

Answer 36

Supports leaves and transports water and nutrients.

Question 37

Vascular Plant

Answer 37

A plant with vascular tissue that allows rapid movement of water and substances; has true roots, stems, and leaves.

Question 38

Xylem

Answer 38

Type of vessel that transports water