Microbiology
The general name for animal-like protists is
Protozoans
What is the main component of the tiny shells of the members of the phylum Actinopoda
Calclum Carbonate
Common edible mushroom
Agaricus bisporis
Select all the kingdoms that are composed of eukaryotes
Animalia, Fungi, Plantae, Protista
Asexual reproduction of yeast
Budding
Organisms are classified as either a prokaryote or a eukaryote based on their
Cellular structure
Sexual reproduction in some protozoans
Conjugation
The fuzzy-looking structures in a mold colony are called Sporangium
False
Multicellular fungi are composed of thread-like structures called
Hyphae
Amoeboid protists use their pseudopodium for:
Motility and phagocytosis
Who is credited with discovering pencillin?
Sir Alexander Fleming
How do contractile vacuoles help a cell with homostasis?
They regulate water intake and excretion
The cell wall of fungi is composed of chitin, the same material found in the exoskeleton of a lobster
True
The common name for foraminifers is radiolarians
True
Tsetse fly
Trypanosoma
Triatomine bug
Trypanosoma cruzi
Which group of humans is likely to experience the most devastating symptoms of toxoplasmosis?
Unborn babies
Select the kingdoms where all prokaryotes are classified
☆Archaea ☆Eubacteria
Select the characteristics common to both green algae and plants
☆Food is stored as starch ☆Cell walls are made of cellulose
In what locations does the text suggest you might find zooflagellates living
☆fresh water lakes ☆inside other organisms
During the Plasmodium life cycle, the asexual portion is responsible for the ☆clinical symptoms☆ of maleria. The sexual portion releases the ☆spores☆ into the human blood system
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Phlebotimine sand fly
Leishmania donovani
What is the thallus type of Cladophora vegabunda?
Multicellular
What structure is responsible for maintaining the consistent shape of a paramecium?
Pellicle
The name of the fruiting body for all sac fungi is
Ascus
Organism in which a parasite is growing
Host
The Anopheles mosquito is the insect vector for _______
Maleria
An organism which lives directly on or in another organism without providing any benefits to its host is called a
Parasite
Baker's yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Mutally positive relationship between two species
Symbiosis
Organisms response to a stimulus
Taxis
Which of the following best describes the structure of sporangiophore?
Tiny stalk-like structures which support the sporangium
Insect vectors can carry disease-causing organisms on their legs or mouthparts
True
Select the phyla of fungi you will be studying in this section
-Ascomycota -Basidiomycota -Chytridiomycota -Zygomycota
The study of algae is called
Phycology
Zooflagellates move by means of a whip-like structure called
Flagellum
Response to a chemical
Chemotaxis
The break-down of complex molecules into simpler ones is called ___________
Fermentation
Archaea and Eubacteria are kingdoms composed of organisms which
Do not have a membrane-bound nucleus
☆Cilla☆ are tiny hair like structures on the outer surface of some protozoans that are used for motility and for ☆moving food toward the oral groove of the organism☆
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Entamoeba histolyticia is an amoebic protozoan which is responsible for a disease known as amoebic ☆dysentery☆. Cysts formed by Entamoeba histolyticia can live outside the human body and may contaminate water or be carried by ☆houseflies☆. Symptoms include ☆severe diarrhea☆ which can lead to death if not treated
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The insect vector for Plasmodium vivax is the
Anopheles mosquito
Pencillium chrysogenum is considered important because it is the first _______ discovered
Antibiotic
The members of the phylum ______ are all parasitic
Apicomplexa
Saccharomyces cerevisae is important to the food industry in what way
Causes bread to rise
Elm tree parasite
Ceratocystis ulmi
The wide-spread destruction of elm trees in the Untied States was caused by
Ceratocystis ulml
Unicellular, colonial, filamentous, and multicellular are examples of
Common thallii of algae
______ is the structure which is not part of the process of phagocytosis in a ciliate
Cytoplasmic bridge
What characteristic makes the cell of a paramecium exceptional compared to other eukaryotic cells?
Each paramecium has 2 nuclei
During phagocytosis, food particles are ______ and then digested in the _______
Engulfed by the cell membrane, food vacuole
What is a known function of the apical complex
Entry and interaction with the host cell
Cell with membrane bound structures
Eukaryote
Ascomycota is an example of a kingdom
False
Fungi are prokaryotes
False
Food vacuole is the structure within a protozoans where enzymes are secerted to digest
Food vacuole
What is the final result of the protozoan conjugation?
Four new protozoans are created
Structures which house the reproductive formation
Fruiting
Water-borne cysts
Giardia lamblia
Plant or animal which supports a parasite
Host
How does the longitudinal binary fission differ from other forms of binary fission?
It creates daughter cells that are mirror images of each other
A group of hyphae
Mycelia
Fungi are classified as saprophytes when they exhibit which characteristic?
Obtain food from non-living organic material
Produces common antibiotic
Pencillium chrysogenum
Response to light
Phototaxis
Without spores, Fungi could not
Reproduce
Mycelia responsible for obtaining food from non-living organic material
Rhizoids
Obtain food from non-living organic material
Saprophyte
Plant that lives on decaying organic matter
Saprophyte
In a common mold, the ________ is the tiny stalk-like structure that support the fruiting bodies where spores are produced and released
Sporangiophore
The term refers to the structure in which spores are produced
Sporangium
Reproductive cells which can tolerate bad conditions
Spores
Long hyphae that act as anchors to a surface are called
Stolon
Termites and Trichonympha have a ________ relationship
Symbiotic
Mutally positive arrangement between species
Symbosis
Most species of the kingdom Zygomycota are called
Terrestrial saprophytes
The process of budding can be defined as
The production of new organisms by pinching off a portion of the parent cell
If scientists noted that a protozoans developed a cyst, they could safely assume that:
The protozoan's living conditions deteriorated
Fungi are grouped into club fungi or sac fungi according to
The shape of their spore-producing structures
How do rhizoids help fungi to obtain food?
They produce enzymes which break down organic molecules into a usable form
A zygospore is the product of sexual reproduction
True
All eukaryotic cells contain a nucleus and a cytoplasm
True
All species of the phylum Apicomplexa are parasitic
True
Fungi are commonly grouped as sac fungi or club fungi, based on the structure of their fruiting bodies
True
Morels are commonly found growing on damp forest floors
True
Select the kingdoms where all eukaryotes are classified
☆Fungi ☆Plantae ☆Protista ☆Animalia
Select reasons that members of the phylum Chytridiomycota are sometimes grouped in the kingdom Protista, rather than the kingdom Fungi
☆Most members are aquatic ☆The reproductive cells have flagellum
Even though algae can produce their own food through photosynthesis, they are not part of the Plantae kingdom. Select the reasons why.
☆They do not have true vascular ☆They possess significantly different reproductive features
Select reasons why chytrids differ significantly from other fungi
☆most members are aquatic ☆the reproductive cells have flagellum
Select common organisms which are part of the phylum Ascomycota
☆yeast ☆morels
Taxonomic category within a kimgdom
Phylum
Break down of complex molecules into simpler ones
Fermentation
Select reasons why fungi are no longer classified as plants
-fungi do not produce their own food -Fungi do not exhibit tissue differentiation -Fungi cell walls are composed of chitin
Multi-nucleated thread-like structures of fungi
Hyphae
Member of the phylum Foraminifera
Radioloarian
The kingdom _________ contains prokaryotic organisms
Eubacteria
Symbiosis is defined as a ________ relationship between two different species
Win-win
Two parts of the Plasmodium erythrocytic cycle affect the human host in the follow ways. The ☆asexual portion☆ is responsible for the clinal symptoms of maleria in one human host, and the ☆sexual portion☆ releases spores into the human's blood that make it possible for the maleria to be passed on to a ☆mosquito☆ and then to another human
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The breaking down of complex molecules into simpler molecules which cells can use for food is called
Fermentation
A bacterium will travel through the structures of a paramecium in what order?
First-oral groove Second-gullet Third-cell cytoplasm Fourth-anal pore