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What are the 2 reasons for using a microscope

View objects unseen by the human eye and differentiate parts of the object

A compound microscope has

High magnification and low resolution

A dissecting microscope or stereomicroscope has

Low magnification, high resolution

Which microscope has 3d or 2d image and cost

Electron

What is the function of the ocular lens/eyepiece

10x function

Which piece joins the ocular to the nose piece

The arm/body tube

What is the revolving nosepiece?

Revolving part containing objectives

What are the objectives and what they do

10x, 40x, 100x, and they life size the magnification

What does the stage do?

Support the specimen/slide

What is the part that controls the light passing through the specimen

The Iris diaphram

What is the function of the condenser

To condense the light before it passes through the specimen

Which part provides light to illuminate the object

The light source

What does the coarse focus knob do

Move the stage up and down

What is the function of the fine focus knob

To move the body tube up and down to precisely focus the object

What turns the light source on or off

The light switch

Which part controls the intensity of light of the light source

The light intensity adjustment

What does the base do

Provides a firm support to the microscope

When do you only use the 10x objective

When dealing with the coarse focus knob

How many inches should the base be away from the edge of the table

6-10

What is the process for finding total magnification

Multiply the ocular by the objective

What type of oil do you use with the 100x magnification

Oil of immersion

What are the two major types of cells

Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Is bacteria an example of prokaryotes or eukaryotes

Prokaryotes

What are examples of eukaryotes

Animals & plants

Prokaryotes have blank but it is not blank

Genetic material, true nuclues

Define the term cell

Basic structural/functional unit of an organism

Which type of cells lack a membrane bound nucleus and contain relatively few organelles

Prokaryotic cells

What does the mitochondria in the animal cell do

Digest fat and sugar in the cell; provides energy

What is responsible for calcium storage, cell material shunting and is the main site of fat digestion

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

What do lysosomes do

Digests and excretes old organelles and other substances

What is the responsibility of the rough endoplasmic reticulum

Protein manufacture, cell material shunting, studded with ribosomes

What is the function of the golgi complex

Process and repackage proteins for transport out of the cell

What encloses the content of the cell, regulating the intake and outtake of the cell

Plasma membrane

Describe centrioles

Made of 2 cylinders of tubules; essential to cell reproduction

What is chloroplasts

The site of photosynthesis

Describe the nuclear membrane

2 layered membrane through which substance enters and leaves the nuclues

What is located at the approximate center of the nucleus. Plays a vital role in ribosome production

Nucleolus

Describe the nucleus

The cell's nerve center, it contains contains chromatin and most of the cell's DNA.

What is the cytoplasm

The cell's structural matrix

What are the three features present in the plant type of eukaryotes?

Cell wall, central vacuole, and chloroplast

Define epithelium

A lining for other tissues

Which of the three types of simple epithelium are composed of a single layer of cells. Minimal resistance, maximum passage of substances (blood and lymphatic vessels)

Simple squamous epithelium

Define simple cuboidal epithelium

Cube/box shape. Absorption/secretion (kidney tubules, ovary surface)

Describe simple columnar epithelium

Tall slim cells. Protect/separate different types of tissues. Absorption/secretion, especially of mucus. (Gastrointestinal tract)

Name the 5 connective tissue types

Loose, dense, cartilage bone and blood

What type of connective tissue does areolar fall under and describe it

Loose. Areolar possesses all three fiber types. Contains fibroblasts and white blood cells. (Mesentery blood vessels)

Melanocytes fall under which connective tissue and describe it

Loose. Similar to areolar tissue but is in a looser arrangement and is less commonly found

What kind of tissue is under loose connective tissue and made of adipocytes which store fat for energy , insulation, and mechanical protection.

Adipose tissue

Define White adipose tissue

Used as energy source, thermal insulator. Also secrets wide array of hormones

Define brown adipose tissue

Used to produce heat. Brown color comes from the presence of mitochondria

Describe dense connective tissue and what are the two kinds

Tightly wound/packed fibrous tissue. Found in tendons,ligaments and dermis. Tendon and ligament

What does tendon attach, what does ligament attach?

Muscle to bone, bone to bone

Define cartilage connective tissue

Connective tissue composed of chondroblasts within collagen

What are the three types of cartilage connective tissue

Hyaline, elastic, and fibrocartilage

Where can you find hyaline cartilage

Joints, ribs, and trachea

Describe elastic cartilage and where it can be found

High elastin content ,and in outer ear, epilottis and larynx

Describe fibrocartilage and where it can be found

Very dense. Pubis and vertebral column

Define bone connective tissue

Made of specialized cells and collagen fibers, woven into a matrix of water, mineral crystals and salts

Define blood connective tissue

Compound liquid tissue that transports nutrients and oxygen

What are the three types of muscle tissue

Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth

Describe skeletal muscle tissue

Voluntary. looks striated under the microscope. Joined to the bones via tendons

What is the basic unit of the skeletal muscle tissue

The sacromere

Describe the cardiac. Where can it be found? What does it resemble? What type of discs does it have? Has a type of junction?

Involuntary, controlled by the medulla. Heart. Resembles the skeletal muscle in appearance. Has intercalculated discs. Has a gap junction

Is smooth muscle voluntary. Where can it be found? What controls it?

Involuntary. Found in blood vessels, airways and digestive system. Controlled by the autonomic nervous system, it possesses gap junctions

What is a dendrite

Projections of nerve cell, receives messages from other nerve cells

Define a myelin sheath

Produced by flat schwann cells, this fatty substance protects and accelerates nerve impulses

Name the 3 types of plant tissues

Dermal, ground tissue and vascular

What is the dermal tissue known as? What is its function?

Epidermis. Serves as a barrier between the inner anatomy of the plant and its external environment. Protects against water loss extracts water and minerals regulates gaseous exchange and secretes metabolic compounds

Describe ground tissue, what is its function

The bulk of the plant. Versatile cells store nutrients; and leaves performs photosynthesis

Define vascular tissue. What are the two kinds

Used to transport water, nutrients and minerals throughout plants. Xylem and pholem

Define xylem. Define pholem

Group of dead cells that are responsible for transport and nutrients against gravity. Living cells that distribute nutrients and newly created carbohydrate throughout the plant

The dermal tissue system is the blank of the plant

Outer covering

The ground system, carries out blank, stores blank and helps support the plants

Photosynthesis, photosynthetic products

The vascular tissue system blanks and blanks throughout the plant

Conducts water, solutes

Define taxonomy

defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups.

Name the 7 levels of classification

Kingdom, phylum,class, order, family, genus, and species

What is the list of wh whitaker 5 kingdom classification and its sub categories

Monera- Bacteria and Archaea Protista- eukaryotic single celled organism. Plantae-Any plant living or extinct. Fungi-yeast, molds, smuts mushroom and toadstools distinct from green plants. Animilia- any animal living or extinct

Archaea is classed with blank, and is what number branch on the phylogenetic tree with the other two branches being

Eubacteria. Bacteria and eucaryota

Archaea comes from the greek word blank meaning blank

Apaxia, ancient

Archaea reproduce blank? And are blank and share similar traits with eukaryotes and bacteria

Asexually.Prokaryotes

What 2 things present in the eukarya branch of the three branches only

Nuclear envelope and membrane enclosed organelles

What is present in the bacteria branch only? what is present in the bacteria and archae branch only

Peptidoglycan in cell wall. Circular chromosome

What is the response to antibotics Streptomycin and Chloramphenicol in all three branches

Growth not inhibited in archaea and eukarya. Inhibited in Bacteria.

Archae aare known for their ability to blank. They are extremophiles. Or their ability to metabolize materials that blank

Survive extreme conditions. Other lifeforms cannot

Archae's ability can be classified into smaller groups bases on their preferences of

Nutrition or climate

Thermophiles are archaea that can survive the blank. Can be found in blank or near blank

High temperature. Hot springs or near undersea volcanic vents

What temperatures do Mesophilic creatures like

Moderate

Which creatures like low temperatures and can be found in the artic

Psychrophiles

Halophiles prefer blank concentrations

Salt

Which creatures prefer acidic conditions

Acidophiles

Litotrophs can use sulfur, methane, and what other 2 substances for energy sources

Nitrogen and ammonia

Which archaea use light to produce energy

Phototrophs

Most people think of eubacteria as

Disease causing agents

What 3 things classify bacteria

Shape, the color they're subjected to when they're dyed and they're arrangement when associated with each other

Gram positive bacteria stain purple because. Gram negative bacteria stain pink

They absorb the purple stain applied to them. absorb the red counter stain

Peptiglycan aka murein is a polymer consisting of

Sugars and amino acids that forms a mesh like layer outside of the plasma membrane forming a cell wall

Define pilus. Specialized structure called sex pili have an important role in

Bacterial pili are involved in cell adhesion. Conjugation with another bacterial cell to exchange genetic informatiom

NAMs and NAGs are

Alternating units of the bacterial cell wall

Lipopolysaccharide also known as lipoglycans which are? They can be found in the outermembrane of gram negative bacteria and acts as

Large molecules consisting of a lipid and a polysaccharide. Endotoxins to elicit strong immune response in animals

Protists are a group of single or multicelluar eukaryote that lacks

Tissues and organs

Protists do have organelles to aid in? Some protists have blank while others do not?

Digestion waste, elimination, osmoregulation, and defense. Chloroplast

Other than their relatively simple blank most protists are not similar to each other?

Structure

How do protists reproduce?

Sexually or asexually

Protista Kingdom is broken down into 3 phyla based on means of? The 3 phyla are

Locomotion, Sacromastigophora, ciliophora and apicomplexa

The sacromastigophora includes blank? What is flagella used for?

Sarcodines and zooflagellates. Absorb food through the cell membrane

Examples of sacromastigophora are? Parts of the Amoeba are the plasma membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm and? Define Trypanosoma

Amoeba proteus and Trypanosoma. Pseudopodia contractile vacuole and food vacuole. A parasite zooflagellate that causes African Sleeping Sickness

What is ciliphora characterized by? What is an example of ciliphora

The presence of hair-like organelles called cilia. Paramecium caudatum

Parts of the paramecium include oral cavity, pellicle, cilia, and

Contractile vacuoles (2), macronucleus and micronucleus

In the apiocomplexa an apical complex is a ? All examples are blank which means they reside within the body of the host.

Structure involved in penetrating a host's cell. Endoparasitic

What do apiocomplexans lack? An example is?

Specialized locomotion structures and organelles for digesting and taking in food. Plasmodium vivax

All characters of kingdom Fungi are ? Most are filamentous and have a network of hyphae called called a?

Eukaryotic. Myelium

Some characters of kingdom fungi are? Fungi are saprophytic and parasitic which means they are useful for

Multicelluar. Recycling nutrients in nature.

Fungi absorb nutrients through? sexual reproduction can be blank(budding) or blank(with the help of spores)

Nature and cell membrane. Asexual or sexual.

Fungi are commonly used for? Mold is a kind of

Bread, cheese, beer, and whine production. Fungi

Sporangium is blank when immature and blank when ripe? Associated with blank reproduction? Stolon is ?

Colourless and black. Asexual. Aerial hypha

Kingdom fungi is divided into 4 following phyla

Zygomycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota and lichens

Zygomomycota take their name for a method of sexual reproduction involving the production of conjugating gametes, leading to the

Production of zygosporangia sexual

What kind of gametes are zygospores

Haploid gametes

Thanks to sporangiospores what kind of reproduction takes place?

Asexual

Step 1: aerial hyphae produce a. 2: Sporangium bursts to. 3 spores germinate to produce. 4 blank grows. 5 Gamete forms? 6? 7 blank forms? 8 blank and meosis? 9 blank produces a sporangium? 10 blank are released from sporangium. 11 spores germinate to produce blank?

Sporangium. 2 release spores. 3 hyphae. 4 Vegetative mycellum. 5 at the tip of hyphae. 6 Plasmogamy. 7 zygospore. 8 karyogamy. 9 zygote. 10 Spores. 11 Hyphae.

In Ascomycota the defining feature of this fungal group is the blank meaning wineskin or blank, a microscopic sexual structure in which nonmotile spores called blank are formed

Ascus ,sac ascospores

Are ascomygota sexual or asexual or both? Sexual Reproduction is carried out by blank produced inside blank?

Both. Ascopores, ascus

Each Ascus produces blank ascupores? Asexual reproduction takes place by budding or? Examples are.

8. Concili. Yeast mold and morals

Basidiomycota have septate hyphae or? Basidiomycota are filamentous and reproduce sexually via the formation of specialized ? Examples include mushroom, smuts and?

Hyphae with crosswalls. Club-shaped end cells that normally bear 4 meiospores. Mushroom, smuts

Lichens is a blank association between fungus and algae

Symbiotic association

Green algae provide food from photosynthesis and fungi provides?

Anchorage, water retention and nutrient absorption

The fungi surrounds the blank often enclosing them within blank unique to lichen associations

Algal cells, complex tissues

Both partner gain water and mineral nutrients from the atmosphere through blank and blank in lichens

Rain and dust

Many lichens reproduce blank either by vegetative reproduction or through the

Asexually, dispersal of disaspores containing algal and fungal cells

In kingdom plantae plants are what kind of organisms? Cellulose provides? Stroma and cuticle are responsible for? Most plants show alteration of generation between ?

Multicelluar or eukaryotic. The cell wall with rigidity and protection. Regulating gas exchange. Diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte

Bryophytes are land plants that lack? What do they rely on? They reproduce via? Examples are mosses and?

Vascular tissue circulating nutrients and water. Surrounding moisture. spores. Hornworts and liverworts

Vascular plants have a vascular system that conducts? This feature allows plants to evolve to a? They don't produce? The principle generation phase is the sporophyte which is usually? Phyla includes lycophota ,psilophyta and? An example is the?

Water, minerals and photosynthetic products. Larger size than nonvascular plants. Seeds. Diploid. Sphenophyta and pterophyta. Fern.

In vascular seed bearing plants what 2 things are present? Two examples are the? In angiosperm what 3 things are present? Angiosperm are the most? Name the 2 subgroups of Angiosperm.

Vascular system and seed are present. Cycads and conifers. Vascular system bearing plants, flowers, and seed bearing plants. Diverse group of land plants. Monocots and dicots.

Monocots have single? Long narrow? Veins are? Vascular bundles are? Flowers are in pairs of? Examples are sunflowers and?

Cotyledon. Leaf. Parallel. scattered. Three. Bean and pea

Dicots have two? A broad? A network of? Ring of? Flower parts in multiples of? 3 examples are mustard and?

Cotyledons. Leaf. Veins. Vascular bundles. Five and Four. Maize and rice

In the kingdom animilia animals can be? Animals typically reproduce but blank is possible? Animals cells lack? Animals can respond quickly to external stimuli because of what 3 factors?

Multicelluar, heterotrophic ,and eukaryotes. Sexual, asexual. Cell wall. Nerve cells ,muscles or contractile tissues

Phyla consists of what five classifications?

Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelmintheus, Nematoda and Rotifera

In porifera there is calcera which means? There is hexactenellida which means? There is demospongiae which is?

Calcium carbonate spines. Sillica spindules. Sponging spicules

In cnidaria there is hydrozoa which means? Scyphozoa which are like? There are cubozoa which are like? There are anthozoa which are

Hydra.Jellyfish. Box jellies. corals.

Porifera are multicelluar? Bodies are perforated by? Porifera organisms have stiff skeleton made of? Animals in phylum porifera need a? Filter feeders eat particles such as? 3 Examples are?

Marine aquatic animals. Pores. Spicules and collagen. Firm surface for attachment. Bacterial plankton. Ascon sycon and sponges

Choanocytes are flagellated cells? Amoebocytes are embedded in? They move with pseudopodia, digest food and?

Lining interior body of spongocoel. Mesophyll. Carry nutrients and produce spicules

Cnidaria are blank animals? Blank animals have 2 layers of cells which are? They have radial symmetry which means body parts are arranged in? The mouth is surrounded by tentacles which helps?

Aquatic. Dipoblatic epidermis and gastrodermis. Whorls. Feed ,escape ,and protect

For the Cnidaria food is taken through the mouth into the? There is a presence of primitive? Animals in the phylum cnidaria show? An example is?

Gastrovascular activity. Nervous system. Metamorphism polyp(sessile) and Medusa(free living). Hydra

An example of the platyhelminthes is the? They have what kind of symmetry? There is an absence of circulatory and respiratory organs so? Flatworms show what kind of ferilization? These animals have male and female reproductive organs so they are?

Flatworm and tapeworm. Elongated bilatteral. Oxygen and nutrients flow by diffusion. Cross fertilization. Hermaphrodites.

An example of the nematoda is the? Describe their body. Describe their body movement. Stomach is absent so their pharynx? Reproduction is usually? Males are blank and their tails are? What is their symmetry? They are tripoblastic and blank which means seperate sexes? What 2 systems are well developed?

Roundworm or Ascaris. Worm-like body. Wipe-like body movement. Is directly connected to the intestine. Sexually. Smaller and bent. Bilaterial. Dioecios. Reproductive and digestive.

Who do nematodes affect? Modes of transmission are? How can you avoid nematodes on food? What is treatment?

Humans especially young children. Improper hand wash after garden work or soil contact. Ensure that meat or fish is thoroughly cooked. Intestinal worms.

What kind of animals are rotifera? Are they prokaryotic or eukaryotic? Describe their digestive system. Rotifers are parthenogenesis which means? Sexual reproduction occurs when? Describe corona? How do rotifers collect food? What do they feed on?

Microscopic and aquatic most are females. Eukaryotic. Well developed in mouth and ending in anus. When are not harsh females are predominant and only females develop from unfertilized eggs. Eggs of a female are fertilized by a male. Beating hair like fibers which are arranged in a band around the mouth. Beating hairlike fibers to create water current and collect food particles. Phytoplankton and decaying food

Where can rotifers be found ? Under what circumstances rotifers survive years?

Raingutters, temporary pools, desert washes. In a quiscent embryo phase.

Define the neuron. Define axon.

Primary unit of nervous tissue. Main nerve fiber responsible for relaying messages away from the nerve body.