Biology-unit. Microbiology

Virologist

A scientist that studies viruses

Virion

A single virus unit; the thing that we made out of cups and a pen case.

Phylum

A taxonomic category within a kingdom but above class.

Pseudopodia

A temporary footlike extension of a one-celled organism, such as an amoeba, used for moving about and for surrounding and taking in food. "False feet".

Pathogen

An organism that causes disease

Parasite

An organism that lives on or in another organism

Taxis

An organism's response to a stimulus

Protozoans

Animal-like protists

kingdoms that are composed of eucharyotes

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista

Ascomycota

Ascomycota is a Division/Phylum of the kingdom Fungi and, together with the Basidiomycota, form the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species.

Zygomycota

Bread mold;

Late blight

Caused the potato famine

Eucharyotes

Including a membrane-bound nucleus and various other membrane-bound organelles.

Kerenia brevis

Known for causing severe cases of algal bloom of the coast of Florida.

Red eyespot

Light sensitive structure

Cytoplasmic bridge

Which structure is NOT part of the process of phagosytosis in a ciliate

Anaerobic

Without free oxygen; does not require oxygen to survive.

Malaria

________ is caused by four known Plasmodium species which rely on a mosquito insect vector

Thermoacidophiles

_____________________ thrive in hot, acidic environments

Anopheles mosquito

The insect vector for plasmodium vivax. carries malaria.

Eubacteria

The kingdom ___________ contains prokaryotic organisms

Sir Alexander Flemming

The man credited for discovering penicillin

Apicomplexa

The members of the phylum ____________ are all parasitic.

Phagosytosis

The process where an amoeba creates a food vacuole, where digestion continues

Capsid

The protein coating on a virion

Penetration

The second step in the lytic cycle

Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Eubacteria, and Archaea

The six kingdoms (you don't have to list "Kingdom")

Food Vacuole

The structure within a protozoan where enzymes are secreted to digest food

Phycology

The study of algae

Microbiology

The study of things too small to be seen without the aid of a microscope.

Uncoating

The third step in the lytic cycle

Hyphae

The thread-like structures which are the building blocks of fungi

Release

The with step in the lytic cycle

Animalcules

The word Leeuwenhoek used to describe what he saw in a single drop of rainwater.

Max Knott an Ernest Ruska

Two Germans who invented the electron microscope in the 1930's.

Lives in water and can move with the help of a whip-like tail

Two reasons members of the phylum Chytridiomycota differ from other members of the kingdom Fungi

Motile, and no cell wall

Two reasons that euglena have been classified as protozoans in the past.

Galileo

Used mathematics to examine the principles of lenses, thus improving on previous attempts on magnification

Dinoflagellates

"Whirling flagella." a species within the phylum Pyrrophyta. Causes the red tide

Protist

A eukaryotic organism that is NOT an animal, NOT a plant, and NOT a fungus

Sulcus

A groove where the short flagellum on a dinoflagellates remains

Mycelia

A group of hyphae

Flagella

A long, whip-like filament that helps in cell motility. Many bacteria are flagellated, and sperm are flagellated.

Host

A plant or animal which supports a parasite

Cilia

Hairlike projections that extend from the plasma membrane and are used for locomotion

Prokaryotes

Cells that do not enclose DNA in nuclei.

Kelp forests

Coastal ocean community named for its dominant organism-kelp, a giant brown alga. Found in the Pacific ocean.

Chitridiomycota

Commonly referred to as "chytrids"; mostly aquatic; the gametes, or reproductive cells, are flagellated, which means that they have a tail-like structure that allows them to propel themselves through the water.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave the first accurate descriptions of microbes and spermatozoa and blood corpuscles. (1632-1723)

Robert Hook

English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and called the little pieces he saw, "cells".

Kingdoms that are composed of prokaryotes

Eubacteria, Archea

Kingdom Animalia

Eukaryotes; all multicellular; true tissue and organ differentiation; no cell walls. Ex. fish, birds, mammals

Kingdom Plantae

Eukaryotes; all multicellular; true tissue differentiation; cell walls composed of cellulose. Ex. flowers, trees, grass

Kingdom Protista

Eukaryotes; cells with true nucleus; eukaryotes NOT classified as plants, animals, or fungi. Ex. amoeba, paramecium, slime mold, algae

Kingdom Fungi

Eukaryotes; no true tissue differentiation; cell walls made of chitin. Ex. mushrooms, puffballs, yeast

Hans and Zaccharias Janssen

Experimented with two glass lenses

Plasmodial slime mold

Gelatin-like derivative of brown algae

Kelp

Giant brown algae.

Hyphae

Multi-nucleated thread-like structures of fungi

Algin

Multinucleated feeding phase

Symbiosis

Mutually positive relationship between two species.

Fun guy

My co-worker is a Mycologist, he is a __________!

Rhizoids

Mycelia responsible for obtaining food

Saprophytes

Obtain food from non-living organic material.

Saprophyte

Obtains food from dead organic material

Kingdom Eubacteria

Prokaryotes; cells have NO true nucleus or membrane-bound organelles; cell walls contain peptidoglycans. Ex. common bacteria, blue-green algae

Kingdom Archaea

Prokaryotes; cells have no true nucleus or membrane-bound organelles ; no peptidoglycans in the cell walls. Ex. extremophiles

Algal bloom

Rapid growth of algae

Spores

Reproductive cells which can tolerate bad conditions

Chemotaxis

Response to a chemical

Phototaxis

Response to light

Conjugation

Sexual reproduction in some protozoans

Thallus

Structure of an algae

insect vector

The Anopheles mosquito is the _________________ for malaria?

Nucleus

The area of a prokaryotic cell that is dense with genetic material

Fermentation

The break down of complex molecules into simpler ones.

Basidiomycota

The common mushroom, along with puffballs, and toadstools

Salinity

The concentration of salt in water

Attachment

The first step of the lytic cycle

Replication

The fourth step in the lytic cycle

Sulcus

The groove in the outer covering of dinoflagellates.

Phycoerythrin

the substance responsible for the red in red algae