Week 1

Question 1

Broad field conserved with classification

Answer 1

Systematics

Question 2

What is the broadest taxon

Answer 2

Bacteria
Archaea
Eukarya

Question 3

What is the narrowest taxon

Answer 3

Species

Question 4

2 parts of binomial species name

Answer 4

Genus

Epithet

Question 5

What are dichotomous keys used for?

Answer 5

To classify already described organisms by physical features

Question 6

What made protists?

Answer 6

Bacteria

Question 7

Species lacking membrane bound organelles and a nucleus

Answer 7

Prokaryotes

Question 8

What do eukaryotes have that prokaryotes dont

Answer 8

Nucleus and membrane bound organelles

Question 9

Where do archaea species usually inhabit?

Answer 9

Extreme and stressful environments

Question 10

2 distinct groups with prokaryotes

Answer 10

Archaea

Bacteria

Question 11

3 shapes of bacteria

Answer 11

Bacillus
Coccus
Spirillum

Question 12

What shape are bacillus bacteria

Answer 12

Rod shaped

Question 13

Shape of coccus bacteria

Answer 13

Spherical

Question 14

Spirillum

Answer 14

Spiral

Question 15

Heterotrophic definition? What kingdom are mostly heterotrophic?

Answer 15

Derive energy from molecules made by other organisms.

Bacteria are mostly heterotrophs

Question 16

What bacteria is photosynthetic?

Answer 16

Cyanobacteria

Question 17

What are the two Cyanobacteria

Answer 17

Oscillatoria

Gleocapsa

Question 18

Group of eukaryotes that are not plants, animals or fungi

Answer 18

Protists

Question 19

3 super groups of protists

Answer 19

Protozoa
Protophyta
Slime molds

Question 20

Single gelled eukaryotes with animal like heterotrophic ecology

Answer 20

Protozoans

Question 21

What do protozoabs have to enclose food particles for digestion

Answer 21

Food vacuoles

Question 22

What are two vacuoles on Protozoa and their uses

Answer 22

Food vacuole to enclose food particles and digest them

Contractile vacuoles to expel excess water

Question 23

Protists that are autotrophic and go through photosynthesis

Answer 23

Protophyta

Question 24

Protists that are decomposers but have amoebid characteristics

Answer 24

Slime molds

Question 25

How are slime molds different from fungi

Answer 25

No hyphae | No chitin in cell walls

Question 26

What is the basic structure of fungus

Answer 26

Hypha

Question 27

Slender filament of cytoplasm and nuclei enclosed by a cell wall

Answer 27

Hypha

Question 28

Dead organic material

Answer 28

Saprophytes

Question 29

Organisms that fungi feed on

Answer 29

Saprophytes | Parasites

Question 30

Mass of hyphae that make up an individual organism

Answer 30

Mycelium

Question 31

What is a mycelium

Answer 31

Mass of hyphae that make up an individual organism

Question 32

What reproduction do fungi go through

Answer 32

Sexual or asexual

Question 33

What parts of microscope do u gold when carrying?

Answer 33

Base and arm

Question 34

What is alteration of generations in plants?

Answer 34

Change from haploid to diploid

Question 35

2 types of fluid conducting tissues in plants

Answer 35

Xylem | Phloem

Question 36

Major difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms

Answer 36

Gymnosperms use wind pollination | Angiosperms use animal dispersion

Question 37

What do angiosperms use to pollinate

Answer 37

Animal dispersion

Question 38

What do gymnosperms use to pollinate

Answer 38

Wind

Question 39

Major evolutionary difference between poriferans and cnidarians

Answer 39

Cnidarians have tissue

Question 40

Distinctive characteristic of annelidia (annelids)

Answer 40

Segmentation

Question 41

What phylum of animals are characterized by dorsal hollow nerve chord, notochord, pharyngeal slits and a postnatal tail

Answer 41

Chordata

Question 42

What term is used in place of phylum in plant kingdom classification

Answer 42

Division

Question 43

Presence or absence of what tissue is used to differentiate between groups of plants

Answer 43

Vascular tissue

Question 44

What do animals derive their energy from

Answer 44

Organic molecules

Question 45

Presence or absence of what layers are used to classify animals

Answer 45

Tissue layers

Question 46

Difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Answer 46

Membrane bound organelles and nucleus

Question 47

What do hirufeans lack that are present in other annelids

Answer 47

Segmentation and appendages

Question 48

Characteristic shared by most Arthropoda

Answer 48

Setae

Question 49

Biramous meaning

Answer 49

Double branched appendage

Question 50

What is the food chain a model of

Answer 50

How energy is transferred through organisms in an ecosystem