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What is not a characteristic of ALL mammals? |
Live birth |
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Which of the following indicates a spherical-shaped bacteria? |
Coccus |
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What percent of all animals have a vertebral column? |
<5% |
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The Plant kingdom is theorized to have arisen from green algae because green algae... |
store food as starch and have the same type of chlorophyll |
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It is currently estimated that % of plants with vascular tissues are dependent on mycorrhizal associations to absorb water and minerals from the soil. |
Approximately 80% |
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The evolutionary transition of plants occurred in this order: |
Bryophytes, Seedless Vascular Plants, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms |
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Why did plants evolve to have vascular tissue? |
can photosynthesize faster |
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When you observe a large, mature oak tree, you are primarily observing the... |
sporophyte generation |
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Some diseases caused by bacteria are... |
Botulism, Lyme Disease, Black Death, Tetanus |
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Plants that have their pollen transferred primarily by animals include... |
Angiosperms |
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Disease caused by a living organism... |
Gonorrhea |
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Cattle can break down plant cell walls because they |
have bacteria in their stomachs |
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Saphrophytic organisms (e.g. saprobes) refers to those that... |
consume dead organic matter |
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Mycorrhizae refer to fungi that... |
have a symbiotic relationship with a photosynthetic partner |
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Grasses, dandelions, and eucalyptus |
Angiosperm |
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Disperse via haploid spores |
Bryophytes & seedless vascular |
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Produce seeds, but lack fruit |
Gymnosperms |
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Spend most of life cycle as gametophyte |
Bryophytes |
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Mosses and liverworts |
Bryophytes |
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Coal deposits are composed of these |
Seedless vascular plants |
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Horsetails and Christmas ferns |
Seedless vascular plants |
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Carrageenan and Malaria |
Protista only |
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Peptidoglycan in cell wall |
Bacteria only |
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Alternation of generations life cycle |
Plantae only |
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Aspergillus can cause mass death at bird feeders |
Fungi only |
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Cells have no cell wall |
None of these |
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Indian Pipe has undergone drastic evolutionary changes to survive in WV forests |
Plantae only |
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Heterotrophic only |
Fungi only |
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Converts atmospheric nitrogen into a water-soluble form, like ammonium |
Bacteria only |
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Largest living organism on Earth |
Fungi only |
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Consists of a short section of single-stranded RNA only |
Viroids |
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Rabies and the common cold |
Virus |
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Consists of a mis-folded protein |
Prions |
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Staph infections nearly cost Ross his arm |
Bacteria |
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Parkinson's and Kreutzfeldt-Jacob diseases |
Prions |
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Water-vascular system |
Echinodermata |
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All have an exoskeleton with paired, jointed appendages |
Arthropoda |
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Tunicates |
Chordata |
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Neither protostome of deuterostome |
Cnidaria |
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Squid |
Mollusca |
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Acoelomate body cavity |
Platyhelminthes |
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Earthworm |
Annelida |
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Filter feeder, marine habitat |
Porifera |
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Hermit crab |
Arthropoda |
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Tapeworm, Planaria |
Platyhelminthes |
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Pseudocoelomate |
Nematoda |
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Have a body full of air sacs |
Aves |
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First organism on Earth with amniotic egg |
Reptilia |
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Mammary Glands |
Mammalia |
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Feathered dinosaurs |
Aves |
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Bottle-nosed Dolphin |
Mammalia |
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Tiger Salamander |
Amphibia |
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Lots of glands in their skin |
Mammalia |
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Hagfish are marine scavengers |
Jawless fish |
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Eel |
Ray-finned fish |
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Lancelet |
Cephalochordata |
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Coelocanth |
Lobe-finned fish |
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Great White Shark |
Chondrichthyes |
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Lays eggs |
Monotreme |
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Humans |
Placental |
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Tasmania Devil |
Marsupial |
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4-chambered heart |
Monotremes, Marsupials, Placentals |
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Frog fungus that has caused >120 frog species to go extinct |
Chytridiomycota |
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Mushrooms from Mario Brothers |
Basidiomycota |
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Black bread mold |
Zygomycota |
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Morels |
Ascomycota |
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Definition of evolution |
Change in allele frequencies in a population over generations |
