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Lab Exam 1
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
02/04/2013

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The science of classification and nomenclature
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Taxonomy
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Taxonomy that reflects the evolutionary relationships among organisms
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Systematics
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A device for identifying something that is unknown to you, but someone else has described
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Taxonomic Key
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A key that is based upon successive choices between two alternatives
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Dichotomous Key
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Nucleus
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Cell Wall
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Cytoplasm
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Vacuole
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Chloroplast
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This domain is composed of diverse groups of prokaryotes
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Bacteria
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All members of the Domain Bacteria lack a __________ and membranous organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
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Nucleus
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What are bacterial cell walls made of?
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Peptidoglycan
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What group of bacteria are photoautotrophs, and the only bacteria that carry out plant-like photosynthesis?
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cyanobacteria
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What type of bacteria has specialized cells for nitrogen fixation?
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Anabaena
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The metabolic process that converts atmospheric nitrogen to compounds that can be incorporated into proteins/other organic molecules.
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Nitrogen Fixation
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When one organism lives inside the other, the two typically behave as a single organism. This is called:___________
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Endosymbiosis
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Anabaena
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Gleocapsa
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Oscillatoria
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Coccus
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Streptococus
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Diplococcus
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Staphylococcus
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Bacillus
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Spirillum
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Nostoc
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The cells that carry out "nitrogen fixation"
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Heterocysts
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Akinete
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Heterocyst
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Vegetative Cell
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Akinetes, on the bacteria Anabaena, are actually ________
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spores
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Oscillatoria moves in a ____________ motion
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Gliding
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Bacteria with a thicker peptidoglycan layer and no outer membrane layer. It retains the crystal violet/iodine. (Stain appears blue/purple)
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Gram-Positive Bacteria
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Bacteria that appears red/pink and retains the safranin dye.
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Gram-Negative Bacteria
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This kingdom consists of organisms that move/feed using pseudopodia. Phyla in this kingdom: Gymnamoeba, Entamoeba, Myxogastrida
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Amoebazoa
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Contractile Vacuole
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Food Vacuoles
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Nucleus
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Pseudopodium
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Endoplasm
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Ectoplasm
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Cell Membrane
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Unikonta
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Choanoflagellates
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Fungi
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Nucleariids
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Entamoebas
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Gymnamoebas
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Slime Molds
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Opisthokonts
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Amoebazoans
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Animals
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In this Phylum, organisms have no fixed body shape, and they are "naked" - they do not have a shell.
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Gymnamoebas
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Cellular extensions on an amoeba
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Pseudopods
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Contractile Vacuole
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Radiolarans
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Forams
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Rhizaria
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Cilia
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Food Vacuole
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Radiolarans
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Forams
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Marine Planktonic/Benthic organisms that secrete a calcium carbonate shell
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Forams
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Branching form of pseudopodia unique to Forams
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Reticulopodia
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Very slender, thread-like pseudopodia, supported by a bundle of microtubules.
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Axopodia
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Members of the Kingdom Alveolata; These Protozoans lack motor capabilities.
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Phylum Apicomplexa
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The parasite that causes malaria
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Plasmodium
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Fertilized female gametophyte with 2n spores
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Chlamydomonas
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Desmids
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Sporophyte with n tetra spores
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Male Gametophyte with Spermatia
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Volvox Sperm
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Volvox Egg
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Volvox Zygote
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Volvox
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Desmid
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Pandorina
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Polysiphonia
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Fucus
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Spirogyra
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Kingdom, _________, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Phylum
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Kingdom, Phylum, _________, Order, Family, Genus, Species
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Class
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Kingdom,Phylum, Class, Order, _________, Genus, Species
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Family
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Kingdom,Phylum, Class, Order, Family, _________, Species
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Genus
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Kingdom,Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, _________
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Species
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Kingdom,Phylum, Class, _________, Family, Genus, Species
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Order
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The most unique grouping in the taxonomic hieratchy; meaning "kind" or "appearance"
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Species
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____________ have cellulose cell walls and 2 flagella
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Dinoflagellata
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Consists of Water "Molds," Diatoms, and Brown Algae
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Stramenophiles
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___________ have cellulose cells walls, are water "molds," and are swimming zoospores
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Oomycota
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____________ are diatoms and have plates of SiO2
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Bacillariophyta
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________ have cell walls of silica and chlorophyll a and d
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Diatoms
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_______ are brown algae, "kelps," and have the pigments chlorophyll a and Fucoxyanthin
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Phaeophta
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________ consist of Red algae, Carageenan, Agar, and use chlorphyll a and Phycoerithin
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Rhodophyta
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_________ use chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids as pigment; has cellulose cell walls
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Chlorophyta
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Rhodophyta
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Phaeophyta
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Chlorophyta
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Bacillariophyta
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Chlorophyll a,b
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Chlorophyll a
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Chlorophyll a
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Chlorophyll a,d
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Oedogonium Antheridium
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Oedogonium Chloroplast
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Oedogonium Egg
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Oedogonium Oogonium
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Oedogonium Sperm
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Having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal
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Monecious
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E. coli is (gram pos/gram neg)
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Gram Negative
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Staphylococcus epidermis is (gram pos/gram neg)
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Gram Positive
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Having separate male and female individuals
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Divecious
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Excavata-Diplomonadida
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Euglenazoa-Kinetoplastida
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Alveolata-Ciliophora
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Archaeplastida-Chlorophyta
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Parabasilia-Trichomonas
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Euglenazoa-Euglenophyta
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Alveolata-Dinoflagellata
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Archaeplastida-Chlorophyta
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Archaeplastida-Chlorophyta
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