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What’s the common protist and what disease do they cause?

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Sleeping sickness and malaria

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Define a Protist

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Large and diverse group of eukaryotic microorganism

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How are protists classified?

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By the way they obtain nutrients / taxonomy

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Plantlike protists must contain what to be able to carry out Photosynthesis?

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Chlorophyll

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How do fungus like protists get their energy?

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From other organisms

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What is the definition of a protists?

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Uni/multicellular organism feeding on organic matter.

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Fungus living in the vaginal canal are in constant competition with what other organisms?

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Bacteria

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How do you most fungi feed? What other ways that some fungi feed?

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Nutrients from decaying matter & soil parasites.

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How do fungi reproduce

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Through spores

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What is the most important role of fungi in our environment?

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Decomposition

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When yeast ferments, what gas is it putting of to allow bread to rise

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CO2

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What does the common fungi produce?

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Athletes foot and ringworm

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What are fungi cell walls composed of?

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Chitin

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Define a plant

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Thing that goes through photosynthesis.

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What are the major functions of stems in plants?

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Support

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15
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What all does the seed contain?

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Gas/light

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What are lichens and what do they come from?

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Comes from algae lives in fungi filaments

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What are the main functions of leaves?

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To collect sunlight and gases

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What are the three types of tropisms?

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Phototropism, Geotropism, Thigmotropism

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How does fruit help with seed dispersal?

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Attracts animals

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The term vascular tissue refers to what?

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Xylem, phloem, transports fluid and nutrients

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What are plant cell walls composed of?

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Cellulose

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What does cephalization refer to and in what types of symmetry would it be found?

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Forming a head and brain, bilateral

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What’s the difference between open and closed circulatory system?

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Blood closed at all times versus blood diffusion

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Difference between exoskeleton vs endoskeleton

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Exo is the outside and Endo is on the inside

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The chordate phylum requires what four characteristics?

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Only present during embryonic development, vertebral column, dorsal hollow nerve cord.

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What macromolecule is our main energy source?

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Carbohydrates

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Father of evolution

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Charles Darwin

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What was Darwin’s work called?

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Species of Orgin.

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What island did Darwin collect and explore for a majority of his information?

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Galápagos Islands

30
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What does natural selection mean?

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Survival of the fittest.

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What does survival of the fittest mean?

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The most adapted survive

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What is the order of classification starting with domain?

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Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species

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What are the two major categories of cells and how do you determine the difference between them?

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Eukaryotes has nucleus, and Prokaryotes don’t

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What are the two major categories of bacteria and how do you determine them?

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Eubacteria and archaebacteria. Archaebacteria survives extreme conditions.

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What are the 3 shapes that bacteria are identified?

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Spirillium, coccus, bacilis

36
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What is a vaccine and what does it do?

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Small dose so body can build up antibodies.

37
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What does a Gram staining test show?

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Shows makeup of virus membrane

38
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What are antibiotics and what do they do?

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Kill bacteria, overruns microorganism growth

39
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Levels of Organization

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Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism, Population, community, ecosystem, biosphere.

40
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Energy living in the environment flows in how many directions?

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One

41
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What are the difference between DNA & RNA

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Ribose and uracil

42
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What are the functions of MRNA, TRNA, AND rRNA

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To make protein

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What happens during the process of transcription?

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MRNA

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What happens during the process of translation?

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tRNA

45
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During cellular respiration, one molecule of glucose can be converted into how many ATP molecules?

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36

46
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In what organelle does cellular respiration occur?

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The mitochondria

47
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Who’s the father of genetics?

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Gregor Mandel

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