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The Kingdoms Of Life (Chpt 19, 20, 21, 22) Flashcards

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Taxonomy

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Classification and identification of living organisms

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Classification

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Placing organisms into groups based on similar characteristics

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Species

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A group of organisms capable of interbreeding naturally to produce fertile offspring

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Prokaryotic cells

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Do not posses a nucleus or membrane bound organelles

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5
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Eukaryotic cells

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Have a nucleus and membrane bound organelles

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Micro-organisms

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Small living things

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DIAGRAM OF BACTERIA

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8
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Shapes of bacteria & examples

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Round → pneumonia
Rod → tetanus
Spiral → syphilis

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9
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What name is given to bacterial reproduction?

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Binary fission

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10
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Steps in bacterial reproduction

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• DNA replicates
• cell elongates
• DNA moves to each side
• cell splits in two
• two identical daughter cells produced

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11
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What causes endospore formation in bacteria?

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Unfavourable conditions
Eg drought

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12
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Steps in endospore formation (bacteria)

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• contents of cell shrinks
• chromosomes replicate
• tough outer coat formed within cell around genetic material

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13
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Factors affecting growth rate of bacteria

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Temperature
pH
Solute concentration
Oxygen concentration

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14
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Antibiotic

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Chemicals produced by microorganisms that stop the growth of or kill other microorganisms

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15
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What causes antibiotic resistance?

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Misuse of antibiotics
Mutations

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16
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Pathogenic bacteria

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Disease causing bacteria

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17
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Beneficial uses of bacteria

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• used to make antibiotics
• produce yogurts & cheese
• symbiotic bacteria in gut

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18
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Harmful uses of bacteria

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• cause animal & plant disease
• cause food decay

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19
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GROWTH CURVE OF BACTERIA

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Lag phase - adapting to environment
Log phase - rapid growth, abundant resources
Stationary phase - birth rate = death rate
Death phase - decline due to competition
Survival phase - small number survive as spores

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20
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Bioprocessing

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The use of microorganisms to form useful products

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Bioreactor

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A container in which living cells or their products are used to make a product

22
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Batch flow production

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Growth of cells in a bioreactor over a short period of time, under ideal conditions until all nutrients are used up

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Continuous flow production

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Growth of cells in a bioreactor where nutrients are added and the end products are removed all the time at a rate that maintains the volume of liquid and number of cells

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Features of fungi

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• heterotrophic
• eukaryotic
• made up of hyphae
• walls made of chitin (carbonydrate)

25
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What carbohydrate is found in the walls of fungi?

26
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Example & explanation of an obligate parasite

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Only take food from a live host and require host to reproduce
↳ athletes foot

27
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Example & explanation of a facultative parasite

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Can get food from a live or dead host
↳ soft rot

28
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Why are saprophytes important?

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They play a role in decomposition

29
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Example of a toxic mushroom

30
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Example of an edible mushroom

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Field mushroom

31
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DIAGRAM OF RHIZOPUS

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In rhizopus, what is the role of the stolon?

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Allows for horizontal spreading

33
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In rhizopus, what is the role of the rhizoid?

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Anchorage and absorption

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In rhizopus, what is the role of the sporangiophore?

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Reproduction

35
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Sporulation

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Process of making spores

36
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Asexual reproduction in rhizopus (name & explanation)

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Sporulation
• sporangium produces spores by mitosis
• haploid spores transported by wind to substrate

↳ occurs more frequently as only one parent present

37
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What causes sexual reproduction in rhizopus?

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Happens in adverse conditions e.g. drought

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DIAGRAM OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN RHIZOPUS

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DIAGRAM OF YEAST

40
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How does yeast reproduce?

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Asexually by budding
• parent divides by mitosis, daughter nuclei enters small developing bud on surface
• bud separates to become a new individual

41
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Beneficial uses of fungi

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Yeast used to produce alcohol
Mushrooms as a food source

42
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How does yeast respire?

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Anaerobically in a process called fermentation

43
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In amoeba, what is the function of the pseudopod?

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Extends in direction amoeba wishes to move
Used to engulf & digest prey

44
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What is the role of the contractile vacuole in amoeba?

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Osmoregulation

45
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What would happen to amoeba if it did not have a contractile vacuole?

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It would expand and burst

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DIAGRAM OF AMOEBA

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DIAGRAM SHOWING FUNCTION OF CONTRACTILE VACUOLE

48
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State one benefit of parasitic bacteria

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Population control

49
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Describe batch processing

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Fixed amount of nutrients added at start, bacteria goes through all phases of growth curve, product removed at the end

50
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Give one example of an autotrophic bacteria and one example of a heterotrophic bacteria

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A: nitrifying bacteria
H: pneumonia

51
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What term is used to describe reproduction in yeast? Name the type of cell
division involved in this process

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Budding
Mitosis

52
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Steps in contractile vacuole - AMOEBA

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  1. Water in by osmosis
  2. Excess water enters contractile vacuole
  3. Contractile vacuole swells and touches cell membrane
  4. Contractile vacuole expels water

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