BIOLOGY - UNIT 6: MICROBIOLOGY

The kingdom __________ contains prokaryotic organisms.

Eubacteria

The insect vector for Plasmodium vivax is the __________.

Anopheles mosquito

The members of the phylum _________ are all parasitic.

Apicomplexa

radiolarian

member of phylum Foraminifera

symbiosis

mutually positive arrangement between species

saprophyte

obtain food from non-living organic material

host

organism in which a parasite is growing

taxis

organism's response to a stimulus

chemotaxis

response to a chemical

phototaxis

response to light

conjugation

sexual reproduction in some protozoans

In common mold, the __________ is the tiny stalk-like structure that support the fruiting bodies where spores are produced and released.

sporangiophore

____________ is the structure within a protozoan where enzymes are secreted to digest.

Food vacuole

Two parts of the Plasmodium erythrocytic cycle affect the human host in the follow ways. The is responsible for the clinical symptoms of malaria in one human host, and the releases spores into the human's blood that make it possible for the malaria to be passed on to a and then to another human.

asexual portion, sexual portion, mosquito.

eukaryote

cell with membrane-bound structures

___________ is the structure which is not part of the process of phagocytosis in a ciliate.

cytoplasmic bridge

The break-down of complex molecules into simpler ones is called ________.

fermentation