Vocabulary Chapter 16 Pt 2

Question 0

Microbiology technique to identify the cell wall composition of bacteria

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Gram stain

Question 1

The multicellular haploid form in the life cycle of organisms undergoing alternation of generations; mitotically produces haploid gametes that unite and grow into the sporophyte generation

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Gametophyte

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Diverse group of bacteria with a cell wall that is structurally less complex and contains more peptidoglycan than that of gram-negative bacteria

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Gram-positive

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A member of a group of photosynthetic protists that includes chlorophytes and charophyceans

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Green alga

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An organism that cannot make its own organic food molecules and must obtain them by consuming other organisms or their organic products

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Heterotroph

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A type of archaea that produces gas waste as a metabolic waste product

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Methanogen

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Organism that derives it’s nutrition from a living host, which is harmed by the interaction

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Parasite

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An agent such as a virus, bacteria, or fungus that causes disease

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Pathogen

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A polymer of complex sugars cross-linked by short polypeptides

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Peptidoglycan

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An organism that obtains energy from sunlight and carbon from co2 by photosynthesis

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Photoautotroph

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An organism that obtains energy from sunlight and carbon from organic sources

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Photoheterotroph

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A short projection on the surface of a prokaryotic cell that helps the prokaryote attach to other surfaces

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Pilus / Pili

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A type of protist that has amoeboid cells, flagellated cells, and an amoeboid feeding stage in its life cycle

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Plasmodia slime mold

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(1)A single mass of cytoplasm containing many nuclei. (2) the amoeboid feeding stage in the life cycle of a slime mold

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Plasmodium

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A diverse clade of gram-negative bacteria that includes five subgroups known as alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon

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Proteobacteria

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A member of the kingdom in which it is named

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Protist

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A protist that lives primarily by ingesting food

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Protozoan / Protozoa

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A temporary extension of an amoeboid cell

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Pseudopodium / pseudopodia

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A protist that moves and feeds by means of threadlike pseudopodia and has a mineralized support structure composed of silica

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Radiolarian

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A member of a group of marine, mostly multicellular, autotrophic protists, which includes the reef-breeding coralline algae

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Red alga

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A process by which protist diversity is hypothesized to have evolved from a symbiotic association that arose when an autotrophic eukaryotic protist was engulfed by a heterotrophic eukaryotic protist

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Secondary endosymbiosis

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A member of a group of helical bacteria that spiral through the environment by means of rotating, internal filaments

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Spirochete

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The multicellular diploid form in the life cycle of organisms undergoing alternation of generations

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Sporophyte

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A close association between organisms of two or more species

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Symbiosis

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A fungus-like protist in the stramenopile clade

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Water mold