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Building blocks of nucleic acids are?
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Nucleotides
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A 5 carbon sugar found in RNA?
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Ribose
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A 3 carbon component of triglycerides?
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Carboxyl group
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Polysaccharide composed of glucose?
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Cellulose
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May be saturated or unsaturated?
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Fatty acids
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Makes an organic molecule and acid?
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Carboxyl Group
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Sucrose is an example
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Disaccharide
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A pyrimidine found in DNA?
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Thymine
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Building blocks of protein
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Amino acids
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Universal energy carrying molecule
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ATP
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The " " structure of a protein is the sequence of the amino acids.
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primary
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Amino acids are held together by " " bonds.
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Peptide
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Breaking apart a molecule by the addition of a molecule of water is called a(n) " " reaction
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hydrolosis
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Enzymes have " "" " where substrate molecules fit.
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active sites
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Cell membranes are composed of the protein " ".
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Actin
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Microscopic, cytoplasmic connections between adjacent plant cells are termed " "
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plasmodesmata
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Organelles involved in the assembly of proteins are called " ".
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ribosomes
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Stroma and grana are terms which define portions of the ?
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cholorplast
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The movement of substances across a membrane against a concentrations gradient using energy is termed?
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active transport
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Proton pumping acros membranes in the mitochondrion and chloroplasts supplies energy for the manufacture of ?
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ATP molecules
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Your white blood cells engulf invading bacterial cells by a process known as ?
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phagocytosis
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In the cell cycle, the DNA material is duplicated during the ? phase?
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S phase
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The second law of thermodynamics predicts that "?" will increase if a system is left alone.
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entropy
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At the end of glycoloysis, glucose is transformed into 2 molecules of ?
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ATP and NADH
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in aerobic respiration, the required oxygen is combined in a final step in oxidative phosphorylation (electron transport) into ?
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Cristae of the mitochondrion
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Name the group of organisms most frequently associated with alcoholic fermentation pathways.
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yeasts
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The light dependent reactions of photosynthesis take place in the "?" of the chloroplast.
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grana
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A waste product of non-cyclic photophosphorylation in chloroplasts is "?" and is released by green plants during the day.
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oxygen
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The enzyme which functions in the Calvin Cycle combining CO2 and RuBP is "?", and ancient and probably the most common enzyme on the planet.
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Rubisco
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C4 plants are generally thought of as more efficient photosynthesizers because they do not carry out the energetically wasteful process of ?
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photorespiration
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The exchange of genetic information during meisos I between homologous chromosomes is termed ?
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crossing over
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A cross where a plant with red flowers is mated with a plant with white flowers and the offspring plants produce pink flowers is an example of ?
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incomplete dominance
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A bell shaped curve frequently represents the results of "?" inheritance.
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Polygenic
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The exchange of genetic information between non-homologous chromosomes is a type of mutation called a "
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translocation mutation
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In plants, meiosis produces "?" while in animals this type of cell division produces "?"
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spores and gametes
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If a type A man reproduces with a type B woman, their children could be types ? (4 answers)
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A, B, AB, or O
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T or F
Starch and cellulose are both composed of glucose units? |
True
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T or F If a compound gains electrons it is said to be oxidized.
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False
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T or F Enzymes reduce the "activation energy" needed to drive biological reactions.
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True
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T or F RNA and DNA are both double helix type molecules.
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False. RNA is single.
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T or F Saturated fats are commonly produced as storage products by plants.
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False
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T or F Waxes, suberin and cutin are polysaccharides.
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False. Lipids
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T or F Chloroplasts and mitochondria are both double membrane bound organelles.
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True
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T or F The cell wall of a plant cell is outside the cell membrane.
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True
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T or F Golgi bodies are found in both plant and animal cells.
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True
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T or F The tonoplast is the membrane surrounding the mitochondrion.
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False. Its the vacuole
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T or F 9+2 structure refers to the arrangement of macrofibrils in the cell wall.
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False.
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T or F Water always moves from a hypertonic solution to a hypotonic one.
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False
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T or F Membrane proteins may function as binding sites, transport proteins, and for chemical signal recognition.
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True
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T or F Chemical reactions which require energy input are generally termed endothermic (endergonic)
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True
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T or F NAD, FAD and ctochromes are molecules frequently called "electron carrier" molecules.
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True
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T or F In human females, each primary oocyte which undergoes meiosis produces 4 haploid egg cells
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Fales
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T or F Cell plate formation is the usual manner of cytokinesis in plant cells.
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True
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T or F Visible light is generally considered to include the range of 350 to 750 nanometers in the electromagnetic spectrum.
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True
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T or F Glycolysis takes place in the mitochondrion.
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False. It takes place in the cytoplasm.
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T or F Organisms which carry out fermentation gain 36 ATP's from the metabolism of one molecule of glucose.
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False
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T or F Only bacterial cells can carry out lactic acid fermentation.
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False
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T or F The Krebs Cycle takes place in the chloroplast during the daytime.
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False
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T or F One moloecule of glucose can yield 72 ATP's if completely metabolized.
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False
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T or F Chlorphyll molecules only absorb light energy in the green portion of the spectrum.
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False
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T or F Chlorophyll molecules contain magnesium.
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True
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T or F Carotenoid pigments are helpful in photosynthesis because they widen the spectrum of light energies which can help drive the process.
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True
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T or F CAM plants carry out the C4 pathway activities at night.
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True
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T or F Corn is a C4-type grass.
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True
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T or F Most C4 plants are of tropical origin.
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True
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T or F During prophase of meiosis I, homologous chromosomes pair up. This does not happen during mitosis.
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Tru
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T or F AaBb x AaBb (assuming normal dominance) would yeild offspring with representing FOUR phenotypes.
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True
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T or F Just before the beginning of meiosis II, the DNA material replicates again.
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False
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T or F Independent assortment of genetic traits (Mendels Second Law) works as long as the traits are on the same pair of homologous chromosomes.
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True
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T or F Seedless watermelons are seedless because they are triploid. (3N)
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True
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T or F Two normal visioned parents can have a color blind child.
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True
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T or F At the end of meiosis, each resulting cell is genetically unique.
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True
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T or F In a test cross one of the individuals is the homozygous recessive.
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True
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T or F Alternate forms of a gene are termed alleles.
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True
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T or F XXX and XYY human beings are the result of meiotic error know as pleiotropic erros.
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False. Non-disjunction
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T or F Bundle sheath cells of C4 grasses carry out the C3 pathway of carbon fixation during the daytime.
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True
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What are the five major concepts (ideas) in biology as outlined in class?
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All life is based on chemistry
All life is based on cells, the basic unit of structure and function. All life evolves using natural selection. All life uses the same genetic code. All life is interconnected. |
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Pteridophyta is a type of?
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Fern
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Green algae with members such as Volvox.
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Chlorophyta
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Mushrooms, bracket fungi Aggaricus
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Hymenomycetes
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Extinct group of vascular plants
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Rhyniophyta
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Horsetails, scouring rushes; homosporous
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Equisetophyta
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Pilobolus, coenoctic hyphae
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Zygomycota
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Contains non-motile protozoans such as the malaria organism, Plasmodium vivax.
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Apicomplexa
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Liverworts such as Marchantia
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Hepatophyta
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most lichens, ergot of rye, Peziza
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Ascomycota
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Red algae, Polysiphonia belongs here
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Rhodophyta
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Water molds; Plasmopara and Phytophthora.
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Oomycota
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Puffballs, earth stars, stinkhorns.
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Gasteromycetes
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Wisk ferns, Psilotum belongs here.
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Psilotophyta
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Red tides, dinoflagellates, noctiluca
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Dinophyta (Pyrrhophyta)
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Plasmodial slime molds, Physarum
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Myxomycota
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What are the 4 kingdoms of living organisms?
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Fungi - Protista - Plantae - Animalia
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The process of making an RNA message from the DNA molecule is called "?" while the actual assembly of the protein based on the mRNA code is the process of "?"
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Transcription and translation
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Amino acids are brought to the protein assembly site of the ribosome attached to molecules of ?
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transfer RNA
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Molecules that have a 3 letter code called the "?" which must complement the 3 letter code on the mRNA molecule.
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codons
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Which group of fungal-like protoctists has a life cycle pattern like animals and produces cellulose in the cell walls?
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Oomycota
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Imperfect fungi (Deuteromycetes) are, most likely members of the Division?
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Ascomycota
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The three growth forms of lichen-forming fungi are ?
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Fruticose, foliose and crustose.
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In Dictyostelium, once the amobae have aggregated, the "?" stage migrates and eventually forms the sorocarp.
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Grex/pseudoplasmodium
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A member of the Phylum: Ciliophora is the genus.
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Stentor
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Nereocystis and Marcrocystis belong to this Division:
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Phaeophyta
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Division Phaeophyta is commercially important because we extract "?" from their cell walls.
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Alginates
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Name a genus of algae which produces a red eye spot, proteinaceous cell wall, and paramylon as a food reserve.
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Euglena
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A non-motile, unicellular gren alga
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Micraslerids
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a motile, colonial green alga:
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volvox
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a coenocytic, marine green algo
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acetabularia
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a liverwort
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marchantia
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a heterosporous lycopod (lycopodophyta)
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selaginella
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a heterosporous fern
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marsilea
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Name a moss
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sphagnum
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name a dinoflagellate
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noctiluca
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What moss capsule structure is specially designed to assist in spore dispersal
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peristome
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The cluster of sporangia on the underside of a fern frond is termed a
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sori
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In ferns, the spores develop into the ? generation.
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gametophyte
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T or F In the DNA molecule, adenine always pairs with guanine.
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False
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T or F In prokaryotes, the mRNA molecule is edited before it leaes the nucleus.
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False
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T or F DNA replication start at one end of the molecule and proceeds until it reachs the other end.
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False
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T or F The 3 letter sequence on a mRNA molecule which specifies an amino acid is called a codon.
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True
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T or F All viruses contain DNA molecules which direct the synthesis of new cirus particles in host cells.
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False
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T or F Aids is caused by a bacterium
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False
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T or F Some virsuses contain reverse transcriptase, an enzyme capable of making a DNA molecule from an RNA molecule.
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True
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T or F Fungi gain their nutrients like aninals do, by ingestion.
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False
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T or F Yeasts are bacteria which have a type of cell dicision called budding.
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False
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T or F Hormogonia are produced by some cyanobacteria.
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True
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T or F Lichens are sensitive to air pollution, especially SO2.
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True
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T or F In puccinia graminis, one host for the rust is the apple tree.
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False. Wheat and barberry
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T or F Peziza is a fungus which produces an apothecium.
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True
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T or F Ascospores are haploid.
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True
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T or F Giardia is an intestinal parasite of humans and other animals which belongs to the same group as the malaria organism.
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False. Giardia belongs to zoomastiginia and malaria belongs to apicomplexa.
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T or F Ulva and polysiphonia both have alternation of generations types of life cycles.
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True
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T or F Spirogyra produces motile, flagellated gametes like most other green algae.
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False
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T or F Red algae produce no motile (flagellated) cells.
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True
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T or F Most brown algae are found in cold ocean waters.
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True
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T or F Diatoms have silicon in their cell walls.
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True
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T or F Red tides are caused by exploding populations of diatoms.
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False. Dinoflagellates
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T or F Red algae are important as a source of commercial agar.
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True
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T or F In the large kelps, the plant you see is the gametophyte generation.
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True
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T or F Archegoniophores and antheridiophores are produced by some liverworts.
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True. Marchantia
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T or F Male mosses produce pollen.
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False
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T or F Acetabularia is a brown alga.
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False
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T or F Paramylon is the food storage carbohydrate of the green algae.
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False. Starch
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T or F Lycopodium is homosporous.
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True
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T or F Megaspores develop into female sporophytes.
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False. gametophytes.
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T or F Most ferns are homosporous.
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True
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T or F Megaphyllous leaves do not produce a leag gap.
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False
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T or F Armored and unarmored are terms which refer to diatoms.
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False. Found in dinoflagellates and are two different forms of cells. Armored=thick cellulose plates covering cells. Unarmored=very thin plates.
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T or F Pluricarpous mosses are erct forms with terminal sporophytes.
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False
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T or F Isoetes is a heterosporous with each leaf being a sporophyll.
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True
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T or F Lepidodendron, calamites, and rhynia are extint plants.
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True
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T or F Morels and mushrooms both belong to the same fungal division.
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False
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T or F Sphagnum bogs are relatively sterile places because they are very acidic.
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True
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T or F Ferns produce megaphyllous leaves (Fronds)
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True
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T or F Desmids are green algae, members of chlorophyta
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True
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T or F Marchantia is a thallose liverwort.
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True
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T or F The tonoplast is a membrane surrounding a cell vacuole
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True
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T or F Water is a polar molecule.
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True
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T or F Water moves from hypotonic solutions to hypertonic solutions
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True
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T or F If a molecule gains electrons, it is said to have become reduced.
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True
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T or F Cellulose is a polymer of glucose.
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True
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T or F Crossing over takes place during prophase of mitosis.
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False. meiosis
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T or F The division of the cytoplasm in animal cells at the end of mitosis is done by furrowing.
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True
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T or F The plasmodesmata are involved in the synthesis of DNA and RNA
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False
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T or F Active transport moves materials against a concentration gradient.
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True
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T or F Photosynthesis is driven especially well by light in the green portion of the visible spectrum.
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False
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T or F Yeasts produce less ATP from the breakdown of glucose than we do.
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True
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T or F Celular respiration in the mitochondrion requires oxygen
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True
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T or F In CAM plants sugar is synthesized crom CO2 in the daytime.
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True
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T or F Photorespiration is common in al C4 plants.
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False
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T or F The C4 pathway in warm season grasses take place in the mesophyll cells.
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True
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T or F Unsaturated fats are usually produced by animals and are solids at room temperature.
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False
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T or F Hemoglobin is a good example of a complex protein with a beta-pleated sheet structure.
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False. Tertiary
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T or F Putting together two compounds by removing a molecule of water is an example of dehydration synthesis reaction.
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True
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T or F Complete respiration (metabolism) of two molecules of glucose can yield 72 ATP molecules.
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True. one molecule yields 36 ATP (multiply by two).
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T or F There is no S-phase between Meiosis I and Meiosis II.
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True
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T or F Mendels concept of Independent Assortment dealt with the way alleles for the same trait separate from each other during the production of gametes or spores.
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False.
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T or F A colorblind woman could have male childrent with normal vision if the father of the children has normal vision.
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False
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T or F Mutations can be caused by both chemicals and by ionizing radiation
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True
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T or F Non-functional polar bodies are produced be human females during meisos of oocytes.
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True
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T or F If an organism has the genetic combination BB it is said to be homozygous for that trait.
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True
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T or F Generally, if the temperature goes up, the speed of an enzymatic reaction will decrease.
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False
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T or F Many cacti are CAM plants.
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True
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T or F The details of the Calvin Cycle of carbon fixation.in plants were first worked out using wheat.
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False
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T or F Light below 600nm wavelength is considered to be red light.
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False
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T or F Synapsis is the coming together of homologous chromosomes during meiosis.
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True
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an exchange of genes between hon-homologous chromosomes
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Translocation
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Division of the cytoplasm in cel division
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Cytokinesis
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Building blocks of nucleic acids
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Nucleotide
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The sequence of amino acids in a protein.
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Primary structure
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portion (region) of the chloroplast
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Stroma
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Cell organelle responsible for producing lots of ATP
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Mitochondrion
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Makes an organic molecule an acid
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Carboxyl group
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Two solutions with the same concentration of solutes
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isotonic
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Genetic conditoin having three sets of chromosomes
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Triploid
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A blending type of inheritance
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Incomplete dominance
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Time in the cell cycle when DNA is duplicated
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S-phase
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Connection between amino acids in proteins
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peptide bond
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a major component of membranes
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phospholipid
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CO2 trapping enzyme in C3 plants
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Rubisco
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Alternate form of a gene
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Allele
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example of a disaccharide
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sucrose - which is glucose and fructose.
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organelle in most animals ells with strong digestive enzymes
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lysosome
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a product of one type of fermentation.
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ethyl alcohol
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splitting apart two compounds by the addition of water
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hydrolysis
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a compound produced in the photochemical part of photosynthesis
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NADPH
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Cells which lack an organized nubleus are termed "?" cells
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prokaryotic
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Ribosomes are involved in the cellular process of ? (2 words)
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protein synthesis
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The "??" is a cellular organelle often referred to as a packaging center. (2 words)
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Golgi bodies
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Cilia and flagella are composed of the protein?
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tubulin
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In the cell cycle, the chromosomes line up at the equator of the cell during ?
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metaphase
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The oxygen released by plants during the daytime comes from the splitting of ?
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water (H2O)
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Transport of molecules across membranes with a concentration gradient using proteins (permeases) is termed?
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Facilitated diffusion
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The enzyme that traps CO2 in C4 plants is called "?" carboxylase.
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PEP
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Enzymes are proteins with "?" "?" where substrates fit (2 words)
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active sites
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Yeasts ferment pyruvate in "?" and "?".
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CO2 and Ethyl alcohol
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The breakdown of sugar (glycolysis) takes place in the "?" while the subsequent steps (Krebs Cycle) takes place in the "?"
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Cytoplasm and in the matrix of the mitochondrion
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"?" is a good example of a C4 grass.
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Corn
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In the structure of RNA, the 5 carbon sugar is?
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Ribose
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A triglyceride is composed of a molecule of "?" and three "?""?" (2 words)
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glycerol and 3 fatty acids.
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Chemical reactions which release energy are generally called
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exergonic
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ABO blood groups in humans are a good example of the genetic variation called ?
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codominance
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A meiotic mistake (mutation) in which one extra chromosome is present in a gamete is termed a ?
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Non-disjunction
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An accessory pigment in the process of photosynthesis.
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Carotenoid
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Watson and Crick were the first to publis the structure of ?
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DNA
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Your white blood cells clear your bloodstream of harmful bacteria by engulfing them. This process is called
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phagocytosis
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A term which describes the possible mechanism of origin of certain cellular organelles (chloroplasts and mitochondria) in ancient eukaryotic cells.
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Serial Endosymbiosis
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oxidative phosphorylation (electron transport) is the final stage in cellular respiration. It takes place on the "?" of the mitochondrion.
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cristae
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The place (location) where a gene resides on a chromosome is called its ?
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locus
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Red tides belong to which Division?
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Dinophyta -
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Pilobolus belong to which Division?
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Zygomycota - bread molds
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Kelps belong to which Division?
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Phaeophyta - brown algae, kelp, cold marine waters.
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Malaria belongs to which Division?
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Apicomplexa - (sporozoans, animal-like protists.
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Sphagnum belongs to which Division?
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Bryophyta (mosses)
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Leafy liverworts belong to which Division?
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Hepatophyta (liverworts)
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Isoetes belongs to which Division?
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Lycopodiophyta (club mosses)
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Equisetum belongs to which Division?
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Pteridophyta (typical ferns, wisk ferns and horsetails)
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Slime molds belong to which Division?
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Myxomycota (plasmodial slime molds)
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Diatoms belong to which Division?
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Bacillariophyta (autotrophic algal protists, diatomacious earth)
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Spirogyra belongs to which Division?
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Chlorophyta (green algae)
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Corn smut belongs to which Division?
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Basidiomycota (Ustomycetes, club fungi)
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Foraminifera belongs to which Phylum?
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Rhizopoda (amoebas, heliozoans)
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Lichens belong to which Division?
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Ascomycota (sac fungi and lichen, hemia and euasco)
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The "ich" on fish is from which Division?
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Oomycota (water molds, downey mildew of grapes, potato blight)
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Polysiphonia is from which Division?
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Rhodophyta (red algae, warm marine waters, agar, carrageenan)
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Paramecium is from which Division?
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Ciliophora (Ciliates, ventor and vorticella)
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Oscillatoria is from which Phylum?
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Cyanobacteria (blue-green bacteria and blue-green algae, anabema)
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Yeasts are from which Division? Class?
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Division Ascomycota and Class Hemiascomycetes. (most yeasts)
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Penicillium is from which Division? Class?
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Division Ascomycota and Class Fungi Imperfecti
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DNA copying or duplication begins at numerous "?""?" along the DNA strand (2 words)
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replication forks
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Enzymes which help to "open up" the DNA for duplication are called?
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helicases
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When a mRNA molecule is formed based on the DNA template during the process called "?", the mRNA nucleotides are attached using the enzyme "?""?" (2 words)
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Transcription and Reverse Transcriptase
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In eukaryotes, the mRNA is first edited, and the "?" segments are cur out and are not used in the molecule which leaves the nucleus.
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Introns
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All related species are generlly placed inthe same "?" such as Homo or Volvox.
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genus
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Most methanogenic, thermophilic and halophilic prokaryotes are placed in the domain called the ?
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Archaea
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The Kingond "?" has nutrition by ingestion, lacks cell walls and sexually reporduces by gametic meiosis.
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Animalia
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All members of the plant kingdon have a diploid "?" generation which produces spores by meiosis.
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sporophyte
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Yeasts like Saccharomyces have a special type of cytokinesis called?
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Budding
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In France you might make a few francs on Sunday afternoon by using your trained pig to collect ?
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truffles
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In the fungi, cell walls are made of ?
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chitin
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Deuteromycetes are grouped in an artificial "division or class" because we have never seen their "?" stage.
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sexual
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Most of the Protist groups are distinguished by their cell wall chemistry, type of flagella, their pigments (if any) and their?
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food reserve
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A protist genus with paramylon for food storage and a flexible cell wall made of protein?
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Euglena
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An organism which can produce visible light by a chemical reaction is said to be ?
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bioluminescent
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The members of the plant kingdom probably arose from algal ancestors from the Division?
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Chlorophyta
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If the sporophyte and gametophyte generations look alike, the life cycle is said to be an "?" alternation of generations.
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isomorphic
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In the plant kingdom, multicellular sex organs are called female "?" and male "?"
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Archegonia and antheridia
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Plants which produce two kinds of spores are said to be?
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Heterosporous
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Vascular plants are so named because they produce vascular tissues known as phloem and ?
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xylem
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In ferns, a cluster of sporangia onthe underside of a leaf is called a ?
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sori
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Fern sporangia forcibly discharge their spores with the aid of a special band of cells called the ?
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Annulus
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Young, coiled fronds of ferns are called ?
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fiddleheads
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T or F Watson and Crick did their pioneering work on the structure of DNA back in the 1970's.
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False
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T or F After DNA replication, each new DNA has one strand from the original DNA molecule that was copied.
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True
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T or F Making a protein, based on the mRNA instructions, is called translation.
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True
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T or F Protein synthesis is an energy requiring process.
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True
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T or F All genes are fixed in place on chromosomes and never move to different loci.
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False
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T or F In biological classifications, "classes" are subcategories of Divisions or Phyla.
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True
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T or F In general, antibiotics are just as effective against viruses as against bacteria
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False
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T or F In bacteria, many species are round, and thi scell shape is termed bacillus type.
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False - cocci-bacilli-spirilli
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T or F In the fungi, a mass of fungal hyphae (the vegetative body of the fungus) is called an apothecium.
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False
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T or F The Irish potato famine was caused by a member of the Division Oomycota.
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True
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T or F Ergot poisoning is caused by a fungus which infects rye plants.
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True
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T or F Leafy lichens with distinct upper and lower surfaces are called foliose lichens
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True
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T or F In the wheat rust, the summer infection can be spread from field to field, state to state, by the urediniospores.
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True
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T or F Puffballs are placed in the class Basidiomycota, series gasteromycetes.
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True
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T or F Pennate diatoms are capable of a gliding movement.
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True
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T or F Giardia, a human parasite in water, moves by means of pseudopodia
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False
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T or F Sorocarps are produced by members of the Dictyosteliomycota.
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True
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T or F Fucoxanthin is a common pigment inmembers of the Phaeophyta
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True
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T or F Carageenan and agar are products from the cell walls of brown algae.
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False. Red algae
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T or F In Fucus, the motile sperm and non-motile eggs are the resultss of meiotic divisions.
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True
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T or F Hydrodictyon is a motile colonial green alga.
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False. its non-motile
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T or F In Polysiphonia, carpospores develop into male and female gametophytes.
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False
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T or F In Bryophytes, the green, leafy generation is the gametophyte.
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True
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T or F Members of the Plant Kingdom are Embryophytes.
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True
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T or F In mosses, spore dispersal is aided by the action of elaters.
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False
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T or F Peat mosses belong to the genus Sphagnum.
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True
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T or F In Marchantia, the sporophytes are attached to the female gametophyte.
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True
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T or F Rhynia and Lepidodendron are extinct plants
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True
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T or F Microphyllous leaves first evolve in the ferns.
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False
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T or F A fern leaf is called a frond
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True
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T or F Equisetum has spores with elaters which aid in dispersal.
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True
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T or F In Lycopodium and Selaginella, the stobilus is made of compact sporophylls.
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True
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T or F In ferns and lycophytes, the dominant green generation is the gametophyte.
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False
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T or F Much of our coal comes from ancient, extinct members of the division Bryophyta.
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False
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T or F In the quillworts, each leaf is a sporophyll.
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True
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T or F Sometimes in reconstructions of fossil plants, several "genera" are placed together to simulate or interpret of the entire organism.
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True
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T or F Some ferns are epiphytes
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True (epiphyte=not soil living but plants that live on other plants)
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T or F Equisetum strobili are compsed of numberous sporangiophores.
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True
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T or F Psilotum lacks true leaves and roots.
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True
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