Test 2 Flashcards
Biosphere
life/earth
Biome
depends on climate, dominant vegetation, 9-11 on earth
Ecosystem
how organisms interact with their environment
Community
how organisms interact with each other within multiple spaces
Population
individuals of a single species that live within a boundary
Organism
basic unit of life, unique living entity
Organelle
organs within cell, everyone has a job
ribosomes, cell membrane, mitochondria, nucleus
Cell
basic unit of life
Molecule
phospholipid, protein
Atom
makes up molecules
Sub-Atomic Particle
protons, neutrons, electrons
Meta
change
Catabolism
to break down
takes something big and breaks it up
Anabolism
to build up
takes something small and builds it up
Photosynthesis
light/together/process
anabolic process of putting things together with light
6CO2+6H2O=>C6H12O6+6O2
substrates=light/chlorophyll=>product (sugar and oxygen)
Cellular Respiration
catabolic process
everything does this
opposite of photosynthesis
C6H12O6+6O2=>6CO2+6H2O+energy (ATP)
Autotrophic
self/to nourish, feed
can do photosynthesis
plants
Heterotrophic
other/to nourish
can’t to photosynthesis, eat others for energy
animals
Organizing Organisms
Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Domains
Archae
Bacteria
Eukarae
Kingdoms
Monera Protista Fungi Plantae Animalia
How to identify species
standardized name, same everywhere
genus is the first name, then whole name is the species
genus capitalized
whole name italicized or underlined
Prokaryote
before/seed, nut=>nucleus
Eukaryote
true/nut=>nucleus
Kingdom Monera
bacteria and cyanobacteria
Where bacteria are found
everywhere, but not all are living
Spores
dormant form of bacteria
Conditions for bacteria to grow
moist conditions, food source, most like warm conditions
Nutrient agar
agar (provides moisture, comes from brown algae, glue that holds cells together)+nutrient broth (food source)
How to kill living bacteria cells
bleach, alcohol, ammonia
How to kill spores
high temperature and high pressure
Autoclave
provides the conditions necessary to kill spores
Food examples of bacteria
yogurt, cheese, vinegar, sauerkraut, pickles
Agriculture examples of bacteria
silage, bacillus thoringensis (Bt) [compound that kills insects in corn, can be good or bad], methane (CH4) [can produce when there’s no oxygen, landfills produce component of natural gas that can make electricit] (1 molecule of methane=30 molecules of CO2) [decomposition without oxygen=>methane]
E. coli
vitamin K
lives in large intestine
everybody has special E. coli bacteria in their body, when you eat somebody else’s E. coli (poop), the bacteria strands don’t agree and sickness happens. E. coli should not be anywhere besides large intestine.
Greenhouse gases
trap heat, CO2, CH4
Bad bacteria
can cause diseases, or create something that causes disease
tetnis, STDs, pneumonia (some), strep throat, anthrax (soil bacteria, natural is ok), black plague (bubonic, flea bite, rats, prairie dogs)
Neutral bacteria
soil (so many not named because we are not able to grow them)
decomposers
Bacteria shapes
strepto-(chain) staphlo- (cluster) coccus o o o o ooooooooo oooooooooo bacillus l l l l l l ------------ spirillium sssss one o, l, or s=>1 bacteria
Identifying bacteria
what shape it is
Cyanobacteria
mostly aquatic one terrestrial (Nostoc) =>own green slime
Structure of cyanobacteria
oooOooo (cyanobacteria)
hydroscopic (sheath, take up water, make temp. pond)
Nitrogen Fixation
converting atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into a plant-available form of nitrogen (NH4)
all cyanobacteria can fix nitrogen, some bacteria-rhizobia (soil)
Atmosphere
nitrogen-78%-not available, short supply
oxygen-21%
carbon dioxide and other-1%
Nitrogen
everything needs nitrogen for proteins, DNA
lots of energy to break triple covalent bond N=-N
no excess energy to break bonds, not the right tools
plant available=> NH4+ (ammonium) NO3- (nitrate)
Symbiosis
together/life/process
process of living together
parasites (one organism benefits and the other doesn’t)
Mutualism
both members benefit
Examples of mutualism
legumes (available nitrogen source) and rhizobias (root; sugars, low oxygen home)
us (vitamin K) and bacteria (E. coli; warm home, food source)
Kingdom Protista
animal like-protozoans
plant like-algae
fungi like-slime mold, water mold
Movement of protistas
ways to move, because only one cell
flagella: tail-like structure, can have more than one
cilia: little hairs, hundreds that all work together
amoeboid: cell membrane is flexible, moves where the cell wants to go (pseudopoda: fake/foot)
Dormancy types
what they run out of first (slime mold)
sclerotia- dry dormancy (runs out of water first) (yellow)
sporangia- produce spores (coarse-looking)
Slime mold life process
dormant (slime mold sclerotia) + food and water=> active slime mold
/ \
runs out of food runs out of water
spores=>join together sclerotia
but don’t split; multi-nucleate cell
make new nucleus, but cell does not split
Green Algae
chlorophyll a & b-same as plants
most diverse, most plentiful
Red Algae
marine, edible
carrageenan-glue that holds red algae together, prevents ice crystals from forming; ice cream, lotion, makeup, pudding