Prokaryotes + plants test review Flashcards

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excavata

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Have modified mitochondria that lack functional electron transport chains and use anaerobic pathways, such as glycolysis, to extract energy. Part of the protist supergroups.

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amoebozoans

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include many living species of free-living amoebas, parasitic amoebas, and slime molds. and all have pseudopodia. are in the supergroup unikont.

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plasmodial slime mold

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is a plasmodium; are most common in moist, decaying organic matter and are often brightly colored.

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amoeba

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a general term for a protist that moves and feeds by pseudopodia

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cellular slime molds

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most time they exist as solitary amoeboid cells. they live on organic decaying matter. Part of the amoebozoans.

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stramenopiles

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in the SAR group of protists. they consist of diatoms, brown algae, and water molds (heterotrophs). and they are aquatic.

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Alveolates

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in the SAR group of protists. they consist of dinoflagellates and ciliates.

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Rhizaria

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in the SAR group of posts. They consist of foraminiferans and radiolarian, also known as amoebas.

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archaeplastida

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are a supergroup of protists. they are thought to have arisen from cyanobacterium that evolved into the chloroplast. they include red algae, green algae, charophytes, and land plants.

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zygomycetes

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have a protective zygosporangium, where zygote produces haploid spores by meiosis. mold the foods.

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chytrids

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the only fungi with flagellated spores, which are thought to be the earliest linage of fungi.

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glomeromycetes

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form a distinct form of mycorrhiza

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ascomycetes

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a fungus that produces the spore sexually. also have associations called lichens

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basidiomycetes or club fungi

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key roles are decomposers, lignin in wood

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DNA viruses

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chickenpox, herpes, and hepatitis

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4.

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some tissues/organs can replace the damage by mitosis, while some can not.

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retrovirus

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an RNA virus that reproduces by means of a DNA molecule. retroviruses are so named because they reverse the usual DNA –> RNA flow of genetic information.

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retrovirus 2

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HIV

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prion

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infectious proteins that cause a number of brain diseases in animals. normal protein –> misfolded versions.