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What does Domain Archaea include?
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Methanogens, Hyalophiles, Thermophiles
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What are the modes of genetic exchange within a bacterial population?
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conjugation, transduction, transformation, plasma membrane
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What bacteria caused the Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" as it was transfered by fleas from rats to humans?
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yersinia pestis
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What group of protozoans have no means of locomotion?
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apicomplexans
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This is a form of natural selection that can result in dimorphism as a result from individuals that carry certain inherited traits to attract mates.
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sexual selection
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Pyrrophyta are dinoflagellates and are the cause of?
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red tide
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This individual noted a relationship between morphology and the environment.
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Erasmus Darwin
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This reptiles lives in the rivers of madagascar and the orinoco river of south america.
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side-neck turtles
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What animal lives in New Zealand?
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Tuatara
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In most species of the paramecium there are how many contractile vacules?
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two
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Gondwanaland includes which geographical land masses?
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South America
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This individual demonstrated that maggots do not rise from rotting meat.
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Redi
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Name the classes of the Phylum arthropoda.
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trilobita, merostomate, arachnida, malacostraca, diplopida, chilopoda, insecta
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Give and example of the class trilobita
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"giant roaches"
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Give and example of the class merostomate.
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horseshoe crabs. (extinct)
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give and example of arachnida
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spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites
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Give an example of malacostraca.
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lobsters, crabs, crayfis, shrimp
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Example of diplopida
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millipedes
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Example of chilopoda?
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centipedes
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Name the classes.
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arthropoda, brachiopoda, bryozoa, porifera, mollusca, exhinodermata, cnidaria, ctenophora, platyelminthes, nemertea, rotifera, nematoda, annelida, hemichordata, chordata
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These first photo-synthesizer led to the development of our present day atmosphere.
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cyanobacteria
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What kingdom of organisms does a professional mycologist study?
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Fungi
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Class placodermi is the only extinct class belonging to the phyla.
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chordates
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Which Greek philosopher suggested there was a single act of creation and all life was fixed and immutable?
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Aristotle
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The suggestion that characteristic acquired by an individual could be passed on to their offspring was noted by whom?
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Jean Lamarck
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Which of the following formations provided the first concrete evidence of eukaryotic life forms?
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Bitter springs formation
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This individual's suggestions led to the modern concept of panspermia.
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Maillet
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Brachiopoda and Bryozoa use which of the following as a feeding mechanism?
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lophophore
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This division of fungi includes bread molds such as Rhizopus
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zygomycota
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Which of the followind is defined as a specialized group of fungi that forms thin white mycelial sheaths around the roods of plants.
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Mycorrhizal
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Which of the following correctly explains how a favorable genetic trait can increase the frequency in a population.
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natural selection.
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To which kingdom does a microscopic unicellular organism having a gullet, a flagellum, chloroplasts, mitochondria and a nucleus belong?
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protista
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Give and example of symbiosis.
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lichen
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Give examples of class insecta
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bees, moths, fireflies
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Darwin's finches are and example of evolution of a species by the
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Founder effect
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Which taxa designates the first word in the binomial nomenclature system
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genus
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Which morphological scientific name is given to a spherically shaped bacterium
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coccus
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Which of the following is not a nematode
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tapeworm
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Francesco Redi is known for an experiment that refuted which of the following theories
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spontaneous generation
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This division includes shelf fungi and puff balls
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basidiomycota
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Alexander flemming first observed the properties of this antibiotic
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Penicillium
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These lichens form into cup-like structures
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fruticose
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Phytophthora is responsible for
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The Irish potato blight
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This division includes sac fungi and morel
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ascomycota
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These hairlike structures allow bacteria to stick to surfaces
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pili
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This group of bacteria for branching filaments to bridge gaps within the soil
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ascomycetes
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Bacterial cells take up the DNA released by dead bacteria during which form of bacterial reproduction
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transformation
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This phylum includes ascaris and wuchereria
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mematoda
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Also known as prokaryotic giants, these bacteria are long helical-shaped
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spirochetes
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This Russian biochemist renewed an interest in spontaneous generation with his work using coacervates
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oparin
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Widely accredited today, this hypothesis stated that the solar system began as a rotating cluster of gas clouds and dust
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Solar Nebular
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Which individual suggested that there must have been common origin and life and must have arisen from the non-living
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Chambers
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Dikaryotic nuclei fuse to form a diploid zygote which undergoes meiosis to produce a basidioshores in the structure of the mushroom.
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basidia
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This demographer suggested that widespread starvation will cause a struggle for survival as a result of overpopulation
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Malthus
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Examples of a class
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mammalia, cephalopoda, hydrozoa
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The transmission of malaria is caused by the bite of which organism?
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anopheles
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The American geologist suggested there were two great continents situated over the poles
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Frank Taylor
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Larentia (Laurussia) includes what land masses?
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Greenland
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This is the only sac-like cell where dikaryotic nuclei fuse to produce a zygote which undergoes meiosis to produce ascospores
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ascus
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Spiders tick and mites belong to which class
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arachnida
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This animal is the last living rynchocephalian in the geograpical region of New Zealand.
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Tuatara
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Prior to human arrival, this continent was populated by monotremes and marsupials but no placential mammals
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Australia
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A British geologist, Arthur Homes, first suggested that convection cells within the crust and mantle were responsible for
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continental drift
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These protozoans use pseudopodia to capture food
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amoeboid
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Which scientist used a flask with a curved neck to prove that spontaneous generation did not occur in a broth
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Pasteur
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Porphyra is a major source of which biproduts?
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Agar
carrageenin |
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This division includes sargassum found in the western atlantic
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phaeophyta
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Sporosoites are injected VIA mosquito bite and invade which human cells
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liver
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Which slime molds have two cell forms and are multinucleated within a single mass of cytoplasm
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plasmodial slime molds
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This class includes a predatory jawless fish
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cephalospidomorphii
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This taxon is always capitalized and italicized
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Genus
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Homomorphic alternations of generations ia an example of which algae
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Ulva
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This bacteria are curved or comma shaped
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vibro
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An organism whose cells contain complex structures-such as a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
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Eukaryotic
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The class chondrichthyes include
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skates, sharkes and rays
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Kingdom fungi are hetrotropic by
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absorbtion
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This bacterium is responsible for the sexual transmitted disease gonorrhea and result in sterility and blindness
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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Charles Darwin uncovered this giant slouth on Punta Alta and considered it too large to have been a tree dweller
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megatherium
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Which is a non major characteristic of the phylum chordata
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spinal column
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A ------ is not a true mold
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slime mold
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Which of the following slime molds are responsible for the formation of cottony masses o the body and eyes of fish
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water molds
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Division of the kingdom fungi are based on the
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reproductive structure
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