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The process of arranging organisms into groups based on similarities

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Taxonomy

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Classification is based on what 3 similarities?

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Structural
Biochemical and DNA
Mating and Reproduction

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Common design caused by

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Common designer

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Who was the first to divide plants and animals into basic groups?

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Aristotle

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Who developed the species concept?

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John Ray

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Who wrote Wisdom of God Manifested in the Creation

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John Ray

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Who showed organisms could be arranged into a graded hierarchy

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Carolus Linnaeus

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What is the definite terminology developed by Linnaeus?

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Binomial nomenclature

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The binomial nomenclature is?

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Genus species

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What are the 7 categories?

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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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What category was added above kingdom?

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Domain

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Group of similar organisms which breed freely in nature?

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Species

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Biologically capable of producing offspring?

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Kind

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Capable of hybridization?

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Kind

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Biblical kind is often the _______ classification level

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Family

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A horse and a donkey are different _______, same ________.

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Species, kind

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Vascular is always talking about

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Xylem and phloem (plants)

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Flowering plants?

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Angiosperms

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Seeds protected in?

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Angiosperms

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Nonflowering plants?

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Gymnosperm

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How is the seed produced in gymnosperms?

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Naked seed produced in cones of cone-like structures

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Cone-bearing

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Conifers

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Pollen producing?

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Staminate (male)

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Seed producing?

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Ovulate (female)

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Oldest conifers?
Bristlecone pine
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Old and tall conifer? | Most mass of any tree?
Giant sequoia
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Tallest tree?
Coast redwood | California
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Lethal cones?
Bunya-bunya (Cones up to 22 lbs) Australia
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Extinct, oops, found some
Wollemi pine | Australia
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Palm-like leaves
Cycad
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The Ginkgo tree is often called?
Maiden-hair tree
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Fan-shapes leaves, not evergreens
Ginkgo
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Deciduous
Not evergreen
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3 vascular, non-seed plants
Ferns Club moss Horsetails
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What is a spore?
One-called reproductive structure capable of growing into a new organism
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Is reproduction by spores sexual or asexual?
Asexual
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Ferns produce small, brownish dots called
Sori
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Groups of minute spore cases?
Sporangia
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The fern's underground stems are called?
Rhizomes
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The ferns large leaves are called?
Fronds
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The fronds grow upward by unrolling from?
Fiddleheads
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Club mosses are also called?
Ground pine
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Is the club moss actually moss?
No
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Name a type of club moss?
Lycopodium
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Which vascular, non-seed plants have hollow, jointed stem
Horsetails
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Name two types of nonvascular plants
Bryophytes | Algae
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"Moss-like plants"
Bryophytes
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Name the two types of bryophytes
Mosses | Liverworts
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Which part of a moss contains the spores?
Capsule
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What are the "roots" of a moss called?
Rhizoids
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What are two benefits of mosses?
Chemical weathering | Prevention of soil erosion
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Umbrella shaped capsule?
Liverworts
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First link in aquatic food chain?
Algae
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Algae can survive anywhere there is...
Sunlight | Moisture
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What provides 70% of all photosynthesis?
Algae
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Algae is classified by?
Color
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Are algae always found in the water?
No!
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All algae contains...
Chlorophyll
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Which algae has the largest number of species?
Green
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Green algae is...
Unicellular Colonial Filamentous
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Most abundant algae?
Yellow algae
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2nd most abundant life form?
Diatoms
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Diatoms live in...
"Glass houses" | Made of silica
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Empty diatoms (glass houses) make...
Diatomacious earth
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Seaweed of colder waters
Brown algae
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Kelp?
``` Brown algae (Kelp=largest) ```
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What substance holds things together?
Algin
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Which brown algae floats by air sacs?
Sargassum
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Sargassum is which algae?
Brown algae
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Seaweed in warmer ocean waters
Red algae
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Give an example of red algae
Dulse, Irish moss
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What substance makes things smooth and creamy
Carageenin
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Microscopic, one-celled, aquatic organisms found in both fresh and salt water
Dinoflagellates
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Like a whip for locomotion, propeller
Flagella
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What occurs when the dinoflagellate blooms or grows so rapidly that the water is tinged with a pinkish color?
Red tide
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Cyanobacteria
Blue-green algae
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A common representative of blue-green algae is?
Anabaena
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What's another name for blue-green algae?
Cyanobacteria
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Do fungi have chlorophyll?
No!
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The cell wall of fungi is made of?
Citon | Not cellulose!
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Can't feed self
Heterotrophs
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Can fungi feed itself?
No, it is heterotrophic
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Are fungi vascular?
No
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Feed on other organisms
Parasites
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What gets their food from dead, organic matter?
Saprophytes
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What break down organic matter such as leaves
Saprophites
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Fungi are only harmful?
False, they are also beneficial
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2 parts of fungi?
Hyphae (mycelium) | Fruiting body
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What produce spores in club shaped basidia
Club fungi
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Many fungi produce spores in microscopic club shaped structures called...
Basidia
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Type of club fungi?
``` Mushrooms Toadstools Puffballs Bracket fungi Rusts and smuts ```
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Which type of club fungi is poisonous?
Toadstools
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Bracket fungi is also called
Shelf fungi
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Which club fungi are parasitic?
Rusts and smuts
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One common type of bread mold is?
Rhizopus
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Another name for blue cheese?
Penicillium
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2 types of sac fungi?
Yeasts | Mildew
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Yeasts reproduce by?
Budding
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Fermentation pertains to which sac fungi?
Yeast
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Which sac fungi's spores are carried by the wind?
Mildew
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Which molds are not technically fungi or mold?
Slime molds
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Jellylike organisms often seen on bark of fallen trees?
Slime molds
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Purpose of slime molds?
To break down bark of fallen trees
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Sometimes a fungus and algae live together in a close relationship that combines the two organisms into a single unit called...
Lichen
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In lichen, the fungi and algae have a...
Mutualistic symbiosis relationship
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What are the functions of fungi and algae in lichen?
Fungi-water and minerals | Algae-food

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