Lab 6 - Bacteria and Eukarya

Question 1

Species

Answer 1

A time of living organism. More than 1.5 million have been discovered

Question 2

Taxonomy

Answer 2

The science of grouping various species into groups by likeness.

Question 3

Genus

Answer 3

Closely related species. Example the genus “Panthera” would be the leading term of Panthera onca, panthera pardus…

Question 4

Family

Answer 4

Similar genera (plural of genus) grouped together

Question 5

Orders

Answer 5

Groups of families which are groups of genera.

Question 6

Classes

Answer 6

Groups of orders, which are groups of families, which are groups of genus.

Question 7

Phyla

Answer 7

Groups of classes which are Groups of orders, which are groups of families, which are groups of genus.

Question 8

Kingdoms

Answer 8

Groups of phyla, which are Groups of classes which are Groups of orders, which are groups of families, which are groups of genus

Question 9

Domains

Answer 9

Groups of kingdoms which are Groups of phyla, which are Groups of classes which are Groups of orders, which are groups of families, which are groups of genus

Question 10

Animalia

Answer 10

A type of Kingdom that refers to animal life

Question 11

Plantae

Answer 11

A type of kingdom that refers to plant life

Question 12

Fungi

Answer 12

A type of kingdom that refers to fungus.

Question 13

Eukarya

Answer 13

A type of Domain that refers to eukaryotic life

Question 14

Bacteria

Answer 14

Unicellular and Microscopic (smaller than eukaryotes) A type of domain that refers to prokaryotic life. Very similar to the earliest forms of life dating back 3.5 billion years

Question 15

Archea

Answer 15

A type of domain that refers to a close relative of prokaryotic life but can exist within extreme conditions

Question 16

Binary Fission

Answer 16

Cell replication for prokaryotic life

Question 17

Chemoheterotrophic

Answer 17

An organism that gets its energy from the oxidation of organic materials.

Question 18

Filaments

Answer 18

Bacteria that are attached by a “thread”

Question 19

Pathogenic

Answer 19

Disease-causing

Question 20

Flagella

Answer 20

Using a similar motion to a propeller, it exists in all three domains. Aids in cellular movement.

Question 21

The three shapes of bacteria

Answer 21

Bacillus, Coccus, Spirillum

Question 22

Bacillus

Answer 22

Rod-shaped bacteria

Question 23

Coccus

Answer 23

Spherical-shaped bacteria

Question 24

Spirillum

Answer 24

Corkscrew-shaped bacteria

Question 25

Photoautotroph

Answer 25

Uses sunlight for energy

Question 26

Cyanobacteria

Answer 26

Blue-Green Algae. They become so abundant that the form green scum on stagnant water (salt or fresh). They cling together from the use of filaments and are not motile.

Question 27

Hetrocysts

Answer 27

Fix nitrogen from the environment

Question 28

Achinetes

Answer 28

Inactive cells that become encased in a protective shell until conditions improve.

Question 29

Protists

Answer 29

All the other 9 kingdoms of eukarya of which there are about 12. The main 3, each have their own name.

Question 30

Chitin

Answer 30

The material in the cell wall of fungi. Also the exoskeleton of insects

Question 31

Hyphae

Answer 31

The filaments of fungi

Question 32

Mycelium

Answer 32

The tangled map of fungi hyphae

Question 33

Zygosporangium

Answer 33

Produced by sexual reproduction within fungi