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