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Name the successional order of taxonomy starting from Domain to species.
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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Pneumonic "Dumb Kids Playing Chase On Freeways Get Squashed" |
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What are the three characteristics of a eukaryotic cell?
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1. DNA associated with histones
2. Membrane Bound Organelles 3. Linear Chromosomes |
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What are the three characteristics of a prokaryotic cell?
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1. Circular DNA
2. No Nucleus 3. No organelles |
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What is the term used to describe the group of organism whose type of energy aquisition includes manufacturing their own organic molecules?
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Autotrophs
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What is the term used to describe the group of organism who use light energy to drive metabolic processes, and create their own carbon sources?
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Photoautrophs
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What is the term used to describe the group of organism who use chemical energy to drive metabolic processes and create their own carbon molecules for food?
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Chemoautotrophs
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What is the term used to describe the group of organism who get their carbon source from consuming organic materials?
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Heterotrophs
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What is the term used to define organisms that obtain energy from living tissues of the host?
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Parasites
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What is the term used to define organisms that obtain energy from dead organic matter?
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Decomposers (Saprobes)
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What is the term used to define organisms that must have oxygen to live?
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Obligate Aerobes
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What is the term used to define organisms that cannot live in the presense of oxygen?
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Obligate Anaerobes
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What is the term used to define organisms that can grow in the presense or absense of oxygen?
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Facultative Anaerobes
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What are some defining characteristics of the domain archaea? (3)
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1. Cell walls contain various polysaccharides but not peptidoglycans, cellulose or chitin.
2. Ether linked phospholipid membranes 3. DNA associated with histones |
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What is the term used to define organisms that obtain energy from using H2 to fix CO2 and produce methane?
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Methanogens
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What is the term used to define organisms that live in environments with high salt?
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Halophiles
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What is the term used to define organisms that live in very hot environments (greater then 60 degrees celsius).
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Thermophiles
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What is the term used to define a resistant body that contains genetic material and a small amount of cytoplasm surrounded by a durable cell wall that allows bacteria to resist high pH, High Temp, etc.
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Endospore
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What is the term used to define a group of bacteria that are photosynthetic using chlorphyll a to capture energy splitting H20 releasing O2 as do plants for electrons?
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Cyanobacteria
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What is the term used to define a group of bacteria that convert nitrite to nitrate?
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Nitrifying bacteria
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What is the term used to define a group of bacteria that are coiled and move in a corkscrew motion?
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Spirochetes
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What type of organism create nerve toxins that concentrate in filter-feeding fish, which can cause illness in humans if eaten?
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Dinoflagellates
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What type of organisms have shells that fit like a box with a lid that consist of silica?
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Diatoms
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What type of organisms consist of giant seaweeds or kelp?
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Brown Algae
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What type of organism contain red acessory pigments called phycobilisomes and have gametes that do not have flagella?
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Rhodophyta
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What type of organism are ameobas that move by pseudopodia?
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Rhizopoda
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What type of organism have shells made of calcium carbonate?
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Foraminifera
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What type of organism are parasites of animals?
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Apicocomplexans
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What type of organism are distinguished by their cilia?
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Ciliates
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What type of organism include water molds, downy mildews, and white rusts?
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Oomycota
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What do the cell walls of fungi consist of?
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Chitin
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Fungi can either be saprobes or XXXXXXXX?
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Parasites
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XXXXXXXX are mutualistic associations between fungi and algae?
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Lichens
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What is the term used to define a structure on plants that is a waxy covering on aerial parts that reduces dessication?
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Cuticle
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In plants the Xylem is specialized for XXXXXXXX transport, while the Phloem is specialized for XXXXXX transport.
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Water/Sugar
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What is the term used to define a type of plant that sheds its leaves during the slow growing season to reduce water loss?
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Deciduous Trees
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The XXXXXXX consist of three groups of unspecified plants: the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
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Bryophytes
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XXXXXXXXX include the club mosses, spike mosses, and quilworts.
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Lycophyta
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XXXXXXXX include three groups of plants called the ferns, horsetails, and whisk ferns?
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Pterophyta
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XXXXXXXX plants include pines, firs, junipers, spruces, redwoods, cedars, etc?
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Coniferophyta
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XXXXXXX consist of flowering plants that develope fruits.
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Angiosperms aka Anthophyta
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Are all organisms in the animal kingdom heterotrophic?
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Yes
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of sponges?
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Porifera
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of hydrozoa, jellyfish, sea anemones, and coral?
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Cnidaria
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of flatworms grouped into through categories called flukes, tapeworms, and proglottids?
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Platyhelminthes
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of roundworms?
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Nematoda
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of filter feeders drawing water and food into the moth by beating of cilia, these organisms are called rotifers?
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Rotifera
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of snails, bivalves, octopuses, and squids?
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Mollusca
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of segmented worms, which include leeches and earthworms?
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Annelida
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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of sea stars, sea urchins, and sand dollars?
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Echinodermata
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Animals in the group chordata have four main features that distinguish them, what are those features?
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1. Notochord
2. Dorsal Hollow Nerve Chord 3. Pharyngeal Gill Slits 4. Muscular Tail |
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The group of chordates that consists of the lancelets and tnuicates are called the XXXXXX?
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Invertebrates
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The group of chordates that consists of the shark, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are called the XXXXXX?
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Vertebrates
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