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Classification etc Flashcards

1
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What is an autotrophic organism?

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They make their own food from inorganic, raw materials e.g carbon dioxide and water

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How do photoautotrophic organisms obtain energy?

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They use light as the energy source and preform photosynthesis

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What organisms are photoautotrophic?

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  • Protoctista

- Some bacteria

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4
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The way that photoautotrophic organisms obtain nutrients is described as?

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Holophytic

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5
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What do photoautrotrophic plants usually look like?

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Green plants

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How do Chemoautotrophic organisms obtain energy?

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They use the energy from chemical reactions

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7
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What organisms are chemoautotrophic?

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They’re all prokaryotes

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What process do Chemoautotrophic organisms use to produce energy?

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Chemosynthesis

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9
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True or False?

Chemosynthesis is less efficient than photosynthesis

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True

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How do heterotrophic obtain energy?

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They consume complex organic molecules, produced by autotrophs

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What are heterotrophic organisms also known as?

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Consumers

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If heterotrophic organisms are consumers, what does that make autotrophs?

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Producers

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13
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What organisms are heterotrophic?

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  • Animals
  • Fungi
  • Some Bacteria
  • Some Protoctista
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14
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What do heterotrophic organisms eat?

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autotrophs or organisms that have, themselves eaten autotrophs

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What organisms are seen as Saprotrophic?

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  • All fungi

- Some bacteria

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16
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What do saprotrophs feed on?

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Dead or decaying matter

17
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saprotrophs don’t have a specialised digestive system, so how do they digest their food?

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They secrete enzymes onto food material, outside of the body for extracellular digestion.

18
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What enzymes are secreted in saprotrophs extracellular digestion

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  • Proteases
  • Amylase
  • Lipases
  • Cellulases
19
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How do saprotrophs absorb the soluble products in digestion?

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Across their membrane through active transport and diffusion

20
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Why are decomposers (saprotrophs) important?

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  • Recycling nutrients such as Nitrogen

- Decaying leaf litter

21
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Give an example of a decomposer

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Rhizopus (mould), found on rotting fruit

22
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How do parasitic organisms obtain nutrients?

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They obtain it from another living organism, the host

23
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Where to endoparasites live while feeding on a host?

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They live in the body of the host

Tapeworm

24
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Where to ectoparasites live while feeding on a host?

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They live on the surface of the host

Head-lice

25
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Holozoic nutrition is used by many animals, but what does this mean?

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They ingest food, digest it and egest the indigestible remains

26
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How is material digested in holozoic nutrition?

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The food material is processed in the body, digested and absorbed into the body tissues, used by the cells

27
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What do herbivores eat?

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Plant material

28
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What do carnivores eat?

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Other animals

29
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What do omnivores eat?

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Both plant and animals

30
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What do detritivores eat?

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Dead or decaying material

31
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Give a protoctista that uses holozoic nutrition?

A

Amoeba

32
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How do Amoeba transport their nutrients across their membrane?

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  • Diffusion
  • Facilitated diffusion
  • Active transport
33
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How do Amoeba take in larger molecules/Microbes ?

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  • Endocytosis
  • Into food vacuoles
  • Fuse with lysosomes
  • Digested by lysosomal enzymes
34
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How are the nutrients absorbed in Amoeba?

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Absorbed into the cytoplasm

35
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What happens to indigestible material in Amoeba?

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They are egested by exocytosis

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