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Viruses
What type of living things are noncellular?
Outer capsid & nucleic acid
What 2 things are viruses comprised of?
Protein subunits
What are capsids made of?
Either DNA or RNA
What are the inner core of nucleic acids made up of?
Glycoprotein Spikes
What can help a virus attach itself to cells?
Virus
What is an example of an obligate intracellular parasite?
Because they can only reproduce inside a living cell
Why are viruses considered an obligate intracellular parasite?
Receptor
A virus needs a specific molecule called a ______ on the host cell's outer surface in order to attach itself.
Host cell
Once inside a cell, the virus takes over the metabolic machinery of the _____ _____.
Bacteriophage or phage
What is a virus that reproduces in a bacterium?
Lytic cycle
These five phases, attachment, penetration, biosynthesis, maturation and release, are part of what virus cycle?
Attachment
What phase of the lytic cycle does the capsid combine with a receptor in the bacterial cell wall?
Penetration
What phase of the lytic cycle does the viral enzyme digests away part of the cell wall, and viral DNA is injected into the bacterial cell?
Biosynthesis
What phase of the lytic cycle does the virus inactive host genes not necessary for replication?
Maturation
What phase of the lytic cycle does the viral DNA and capsids assemble to produce several hundred viral particles?
Release
What phase of the lytic cycle does the release of phage particles occur?
Lysogenic Cycle
In this cycle, the infected bacterium does not immedicately produce phage, but may do so in the future, and is therefore in a latent stage?
Plasmodesmata
The process by which viruses enter plants through damaged cells is called?
outer membranous envelope
Some animal viruses have an _____ ____ ____ beyond their capsid, and enter the cell via endocytosis.
Retroviruses
What are RNA animal viruses that have a DNA stage called?
transcriptase
Retroviruses have a special enzyme called _____ which carries out transcription of RNA to DNA.
Emerging virus
What kind of virus acts as a causative agent of a disease that only recently has infected large numbers of people?
Emerging virus
HIVE,West Nile, SARS, hantavirus, Ebola and H5N1 viruses are examples of what type of viruses?
Viroids
What are naked strands of RNA, that have been attributed to causing about a dozen crop diseases?
Prions
What term meas "proteinaceous infectious " particles, which interacts with normal proteins and causes it to misshape and cause disease such as Kuru and Mad Cow disease?
Prokaryotes
These types of cells carry no nucleus to contain their genome.
Bacteria & Archaea
What are the 2 types of Prokaryotes?
Prokaryotes
The first living cells were ______, possessing DNA but lacking a nucleus.
Proteins, nucleic acids
The first cells were preceded by biological macromolecules such as ___ and ____.
Biotic Synthesis
The process by which cells produce macromolecules such as proteins, amino acids and nucleotides is called?
Abiotic
Prior to cellular life, macromolecules must have been formed by _____ synthesis
Protocells
What are cell-like structures, complete with an outer membrane, that may have been the beginning of life as they self-assembled macromolecules eventually resulting in the rise to cellular life?
Bacteria
What are the most diverse and prevalent organisms on earth?
Rods, spirals and spheres
What are the 3 shapes of bacterial cells?
Nucleoid
In bacteria cells, there is no nucleus, but instead contains a closed circle of double-stranded DNA that make up a chromosome contained in the?
Plasmids
What are extrachromosomal DNA bacteria molecules called?
No
Do bacteria cells have membrane bound organelles?
Flagella
Motile bacteria use _____, but never cilia.
Peptidoglycan
Instead of a outer cell wall strengthened by cellulose bacteria cells have ______.
Binary Fission
Bacteria & archaea reproduce asexually by means of _______.
Conjunction
A type of genetic recombination in Bacteria where a donor cell passes DNA directly to a recipient cell.
Transformation
A type of genetic recombination in Bacteria where free pieces of DNA secreted by live prokaryotes or released by dead prokaryotes.
Transduction
A type of genetic recombination in Bacteria where bacteriophages carry portions of bacterial DNA from one cell to another.
Endospore
When faced with unfavorable environmental conditions, some bacteria form ______, where a portion of cytoplasm and a chromosome copy dehydrate and are encased by 3 heavy protective spore coats. The rest of the cell deteriorates and the _____ is released.
Spore formation
What allows the survival and dispersal of bacteria to new places?
Photoautotrophs
Bacteria that can only perform oxygenic photosynthesis
Chemoautotrophs
Bacteria that takes in organic nutrients to use as a source of energy to synthesize macromolecules.
Saprotrophs
Bacteria that decompose any large organic molecule
Symbiotic
Bacteria that form relationships with other organisms
mutualistic
symbiotic relationship where both partners benefit
commensalistic
symbiotic relationship where one partner benefits, the other is not harmed
parasitic
symbiotic relationship where one partner benefits, the other is harmed
Decomposers
Bacteria are ______, that digest dead organic remains and return inorganic nutrients to producers.
Nitrogen
Without bacteria, ____ would not be available for plants to produce proteins or available to animals that feed on plants or other animals.
Fermentation
Bacterial ______ uses anaerobic conditions to produce foods such as cheese.
Pathogens
Microbes that cause disease are called ______, and can produce a toxin, adhere to surfaces and sometimes invade organs or cells.
do not
do
In almost all cases, the growth of microbes do/do not cause disease, but the release of toxins they release do/do not cause the disease.
Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
What are the 3 domains?
Eukarya
Which domain is believed to have split off from the Archaea?
Methanogens
Which type of Archaea are found in anaerobic environments?
Chemoautotrophs
Methanogens are ________, that couple methane from hydrogen and carbon dioxide to form ATP, which contributes to global warming.
Halophiles
Which type of Archaea require high salt concentrations for growth?
Thermoacidophiles
Which type of Archaea are isolated from extremely hot, acidic environments and reduce sulfur to sulfides?
Endosymbiosis
What is a condition in which different organisms live together, one inside the other?
Endosymbiotic Theory
What theory states that mitochondria and chloroplasts are derived from prokaryotes that were taken up by a much larger eukaryotic cell?
Prokaryote
Which group of organisms lacks a nucleus, mitochondria and does not have membrane organelles?
Bacteria & Archarea
What are the 2 classifications of prokaryotes?
Eukaryotes
Portista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, Manera are part of what Domain?
Because they can't reproduce outside a living host cell.
Why aren't viruses considered living?
Virus
What are just really pieces of RNA or DNA covered by a protein as protection?
Protozoan, Algae and Slime/Water mold
What are the 3 categories of Protista?
Utilizing organic compounds as source of carbon.
What does heterotrophic mean?
Malaria
What is the most widespread protozoan disease on the planet?
Toxoplasmosis
What is a protozoan disease transmitted by cats?
Protozoans
Which type of protist is unicellular, may have one or more nuclei, reproduce asexually by binary fission, are heterotrophic and are usually motile?
Algae
Which type of protist have chloroplast and carry on photosynthesis?
Slime mold
Which type of Protist feed on dead plant material?
c) nucleic acid
A Virus contains which of the following?

a) a cell wall
b) a plasma membrane
c) nucleic acid
d) cytoplasm
d) attachment, penetration, biosynthesis, maturation, release
The 5 stages of bacteriophage lytic cycle occur in this order:

a) penetration,attachment, release, maturation,biosyntheis
b) attachment, penetration, release, biosysnthesis, maturatoin
c) biosynthesis, attachment, penetration, maturation, release
d) attachment, penetration, biosynthesis, maturation, release
e) penetration, biosynthesis, attachment, maturation, release
b) sometimes have an envelope
Animal viruses:

a) contain both DNA and RNA
b) sometimes have an envelope
c) sometimes infect bacteria
d) do not reproduce inside cells
a) reverse transcriptase
The enzyme that is unique to retroviruses is:

a) reverse transcriptase
b) DNA polymerase
c) DNA gyrase
d) RNA polymerase
b) lysogenic
The ____ cycle is a phage life cycle in which the infected bacterium does not immediately produce phage.

a) lytic
b) lysogenic
c) pathogenic
d) transformation
d) slime molds - trypanosomes (unicellular parasites)
Which of these is mismatched?

a) amoeboids - pseudopods (false feet)
b) sporozoans (unicellular heterotrophic organism) - disease agents
c) algae - variously colored
d) slime molds - trypanosomes (unicellular parasites)
c) They die once they reproduce
Which of the following statements about viroids is false?

a) They are composed of naked RNA
b) They cause plant diseases
c) They die once they reproduce
d) They cause infected cells to produce more viroids
c) cause normal proteins to change shape
Prion proteins cause disease when they:

a) enlarge in size
b) break into small pieces
c) cause normal proteins to change shape
d) interact with DNA
c) mitochondria
A bacterium contains all of the following except:

a) ribosomes
b) DNA
c) mitochondria
d) cytoplasm
e) a plasma membrane
ribosomes
Bacteria have _____, but NOT membrane bound organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
DNA
Bacteria have____, but no nucleus.
cell wall
Bacteria have an outer ____ ____, not by cellulose but by peptidoglycan.
flagella
Bacteria usually use _____ for locomotion, but never cilia.
c) chemoautotrophs
The primary producers at deep-sea vents are:

a) heterotrophs
b) symbionts
c) chemoautotrophs
d) photoautotrophs
a) bacteria
Which organism is being described:
a) bacteria b) archaea c) both bacteria and archaea d) neither bacteria nor archaea

peptidoglycan in cell wall
b) archaea
Which organism is being described:
a) bacteria b) archaea c) both bacteria and archaea d) neither bacteria nor archaea

methanogens
a) bacteria
Which organism is being described:
a) bacteria b) archaea c) both bacteria and archaea d) neither bacteria nor archaea

sometimes parasitic
d) neither bacteria or archaea
Which organism is being described:
a) bacteria b) archaea c) both bacteria and archaea d) neither bacteria nor archaea

contain a nucleus
c) both bacteria and archaea
Which organism is being described:
a) bacteria b) archaea c) both bacteria and archaea d) neither bacteria nor archaea

plasma membrane contains lipids
c) both bacteria and archaea
Which organism is being described:
a) bacteria b) archaea c) both bacteria and archaea d) neither bacteria nor archaea

reproduction by binary fission
d) pyrenoids
Unlike plants, algae contain:

a) chloroplasts
b) vacuoles
c) mitochondria
d) pyrenoids
e) cell walls
a) Some protists are prokaryotic
Which of the following is incorrect about protista?

a) Some protists are prokaryotic
b) Protozoans can be unicellular
C) Algae can produce asexually or sexually
d) Slime molds and water molds are decomposers
e) Protozoans are heterotrophic
a) diatoms
Which of the following are uniocellular, golden-brown algae with a silica shell?

a) diatoms
b) radiolarians
c) trypanosomes
d) sporozoans
e) foraminiferans
charophytes protect the zygote
What was the most important element of the evolution of plants?
zygote, embryo
Land plants not only protect the _____, they also protect and nourish the resulting _____.
Green Algae (known as charophytes)
What is the closest living relative of land plants?
vascular tissue, drying, embryo
Mosses are lowing plants that lack ____ ____ and therefore have no means of transporting water. They do protect the plant from _____ out and protect the ____ within a special structure.
Lycophytes
The ______ are among the first plants to have a vascular system that transports water and solutes from the roots to the leaves.
microphylls
The leaves of lycophytes called ______.
ferns
After lycophytes, _____ evolved with megaphylls and branching to increase the amount of photosynthesis.
seeds
After ferns, gymnosperms evolved with _______, which contained an embryo and stored organic nutrients within a protective coat.
flowers
Angiosperms were after gymosperms, which had _______, a reproductive structure to attract pollinators and they give rise to fruit to cover the seeds.
Land plants, vascular plants, seed plants
The 3 major groups in the evolution of plants are?
Alteration of Generations
All plants undergo ______ of _____, which has two forms, diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte.
spores
Meiosis produces haploid ______
gametophyte
A spore undergoes mitosis and becomes a _______.
zygote
In plants, fertilization occurs and produces a diploid _______.
sporophyte
The zygote undergoes mitosis and forms a _______ .
Gametophyte
A spore undergoes mitosis and forms a haploid ______.
gametes
The Gametophyte undergoes mitosis and forms a haploid ______.
gametophyte
In nonvascular plants, the ______ is the dominant generation.
sporophyte
In vascular plants, the ______ is the dominant generation.
nonvascular
Bryophytes are ________ plants, liverworts, hornworts and mosses.
water
Bryophytes are completely dependent on ____ for reproduction, where the sperm swim from the male shoots to the female shoots.
sporophyte
Within the sporangium, the zygote develops into an attached _______.
spores, gametophytes
The ____ are release into the air and will germinate on land in moist surroundings, where upon germination, ______ will develop.
Vascular
_____ plants have true roots, stems and leaves.
xylem
______ is the part of vascular tissue that conducts water and minerals up from the roots.
Phloem
____ is the part of vascular plants the conduct organic nutrients from one part of a plant to another.
Lignin
The walls of conducting cells in xylem are strengthened by _____, an organic compound which makes them stronger.
Lycophytes and ferns
The two types of seedless vascular plants are _____ and ______.
rhizome
______ is an underground stem which produces roots along its length.
megaphylls
Unlike lycophytes, ferns have large branched leaves called ________.
Fronds
Fern megaphylls are called _____.
sori
In ferns, sporangia are often located in clusters called _____, located on the undersides of fronds.
Coal age
Seedless vascular plants are often called ____ ___ plants.
Seed coat, stored food
The ____ ___ and ____ ___ protect the sporophyte embryo and allow it to survive harsh conditions during periods of dormancy until environmental factors become favorable for growth.
Pollen grains
_____ ____ are the drought resistant male gametophytes.
Pollenization
______ occurs when a pollen grain is brought to the vicinity of the female gametophyte by wind or a pollinator.
_____ _____
Sperm move toward the female gametophyte through a growing _____ ____.
ovule
A female gametophyte develops within an _____ .
are not
In gymnosperms, the ovules are/are not completely enclosed by sporophyte tissue at the time of pollination.
are
In angiosperms, the ovules are/are not completely enclosed by sporophyte tissue at the time of pollination.
naked seed
The term gymnosperm means ___ ____.
Conifers
Pines, spruces, firs, cedars, hemlocks, redwood and cypresses are all _______.
flowering
Angiosperms (covered seeds) are called ____ plants.
flower parts
Angiosperm _____ _____ are called sepals, petals, stamens and carpels, and occur in circles.
sepals
The ____, collectively called calyx, protect the flower before it opens.
corolla
The petals, collectively called _____, often attract a particular pollinator.
filament, anther
Each stamen consists of a stalk, called a ____, and an _____, where pollen is produced in pollen sacs.
carpel
A ____ has 3 major regions, the ovary (which contains 1-100 ovules), the style which elevates the stigma (sticky and adapted for receiving pollen grains).
fruit
In angiosperms, the flower produces seeds enclosed by ____.
Double fertilization
During _____ _____, one sperm unites with an egg nucleius, forming a diploid zygotes and the other sperm unites with 2 other nucli, forming a triploid endosperm (the stored food).
cotyledons
In some seeds, the endosperm is absorbed by the seed leaves called ________.
fruit
One of the primary economic benefits of land plants is the use of the ____ as food.
animals - because they do not have chloroplasts and can't photosynthesize
Are fungi more closely related to plants or animal?
digestive enzymes
Fungi release ____ ____ into their immediate environment and then absorb the products of digestion.
motile
Fungi are non _____ and do not have flagella.
hyphae
A typical fungus is composed of _____, which are thin filaments of cells.
Mycelium
______ are masses of fungal hyphae cells.
Fruiting body
The common term mushroom is often used to describe the part of a fungi called the ____ ____.
sporangia
During asexual reproduction of a fungi, the mycelium produces _____, and spore formation occurs and are windblown.
zygote
In fungi sexual reproduction, two hyphae tips fuse, and then 2 nuclei fuse forming a ______, which is followed by meiosis of windblown spores.
saprotrophs
Most fungi are ______, which decompose the remains of plants, animals and microbes in the soil.
Lichens
____ are mutualistic associations betweena particular fungus and cyanobacteria or green algae.
a) recirculation of water
Which of the following is not a plant adaptation to land?

a) recirculation of water
b) protection of embryo in maternal tissue
c) development of flowers
d) presence of vascular tissue
e) seed production
e) both a and c are correct (haploid and produced by sporophytes
Plant spores are:

a) haploid (n)
b) produced by gametrophs
c) produce by sprophytes
d) diploid
e) both a and c are correct
e) all of the above
Charophytes

a) are freshwater green algae
b) lack vascular tissue
c) are the closest living relatives of land plants
d) enclose their zygotes within protective structures
e) all of the above
b) penicillin is derived from a fungus
Which of the following are true:

a) People don't eat mushrooms because they might be poisonous
b) penicillin is derived from a fungus
c) the alcohol from yeast fermentation makes bread rise
d) Fungi are prokaryotes like bacteria
e) Fungi ingest their food in the same way animals do
c) ferns, d) gymnosperms & e) angiosperms
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

have megaphylls
all do
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

exhibit alternation of generations
d) gymnosperms & e) angiosperms
produce seeds
a) mosses
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

lack true roots, stems and leaves
d) gymnosperms
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

produce ovules that are not completely surrounded by sporophyte tissue
a) mosses, b) lycophytes and c) ferns
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

produce swimming sperm
e) angiosperms
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

produce flowers
all do
Identify the groups to which each feature belongs

a) mosses b) lycophytes c) ferns
d) gymnosperms e) angiosperms

produce the embryo as well as the zygote
e) a & d
Lichens:

a) can live on bare rocks
b) can only survive in nutrient-rich soils
c) are parasitic on trees
d) can reproduce asexually
e) a & d
b) ovary
A fruit is derived from

a) corolla
b) an ovary
c) an ovule
d) the calyx
b) Fungal cell walls are composed of cellulose
Which of the statements about fungi is false?

a) Most fungi are multicellular
b) Fungal cell walls are composed of cellulose
c) Most fungi are nonmotile
d) Fungi digest their food before ingesting it
e) both a & b are correct
Chytrids are

a) a group of fungi with flagellated spores and gamets
b) responsible for a serious infection in frogs
c)a group of flowering plants that produce "naked seeds"
d) the immature leaves of ferns
e) both a & b are correct
e) both b & c are correct - windblown and germinates directly into an organism
A fungal spore:

a) contains an embryonic organism
b) germinates directly into an organism
c) is often windblown
d) is most often diploid
e) both b & c are correct
e) all of these are correct
Mychorrhizal fungi:

a) are a type of lichen
b) help plants gather solar energy
c) help plants gather inorganic nutrients
d ) all of these are correct
e) More than one of these is correct
The gametophyte is the dominant generation in :

a) ferns
b) mosses
c) gymnosperms
d) angiosperms
e) More than one of these is correct
a) embryo
A seed is a mature

a) embryo
b) ovule
c) ovary
d) pollen grain
b) a plant vascular tissue that transports water an minerals
Xylem is:

a) a polysaccharide found in the cell walls of all fungi
b) a plant vascular tissue that transports water an minerals
c) a plant vascular tissue that transports organic compounds
d) a polysaccharide found in the cell walls of plants
e) the part of a flower that produces pollen
d) decomposer
Which of the following is a asprotroph?

a) photosynthetic organism
b) pine tree
c) nonvascular plant
d) decomposer
e) fern leaf
e) both a and c are correct
A mycelium is:

a) a mass of fungal filaments
b) a type of fungus with flagellated spores and gametes
c) the main body of a typical fungus
d) a mutualistic association between a fungus and a green alga or cyanobacterium
e) both a and c are correct
Eukarya
Animals are part of what domain?
haploid egg
Animals begin life as a fertilized _____ _____.
tissue
Animals produce an organism with specialized ______, specifically muscles and nerves.
protist
Most scientist agree that animals evolved from a ______.
Colonial Flagellate
The ____ _____ hypothesis states that animals are descended from an ancestor that resembled a hollow, spherical colony of flagellated cells.
choanoflagellates
Among the last unicellular protist, the ______ is the closest living protist to an animal.
Radial
_____ symmetrical animals tend to stay in one place and reach out in all directions to get their food.
bilaterally
_____ symmetrical animals tend to actively go after their food.
Sponges
______ are multicellular, but have no true tissue and therefore have a cellular level of organization and are classified as parazoans.
Germ
____ layers give rise to all other tissues and organs in an animal's body.
Eumetazoans
_______ have true tissues, which are formed from germ layers when they are embryos.
ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm
The 3 germ layers are ?
cephalization
During evolution, the tendency towards bilateral symmetry is accompanied by ______, localization of a brain and specialized sensory organs at the anterior end of an animal.
mouth, anus
In embryo development for protostomes, the blastopore becomes the _____, and in deuterostomes, the blastopore becomes the ____.
lophotrochozoa, ecdysozoa
The protostomes are divided into 2 groups called the _____ and the ______.
adding additional mass to their existing body
The lophotrochozoa grow by _____.
molting
The Ecdysozoa grow by _____.
acoelomates
Some protostomes have no coeloma (body cavity) and are ________, such as the flatworms.
pseudocoelomates
Roundworms are ________, which have a layer of meosderm but not a wall around their gut.
Segmentation
______ is the repetition of body parts along the length of the body, which leads to specialization of parts because the various segments can become differentiated for specific purpose, i.e. our spines.
sponges, cnidarians
The two groups of invertebrate animals are _____ and ______.
both
Sponges produce asexually/sexually/both?
collar
The body wall of a sponge is lined internally with flagellated cells called _____ cells.
filter
A sponge is a sedentary ____ feeder, an organism that filters its food from the water by means of a straining device.
budding
Sponges can reproduce asexually by fragmentation or _______, where a small protuberance appears and increases in size until it falls off and creates a complete new organism.
cellular
Sponges are multicellular but lack organized tissues and therefore have a _____ level of organization.
radically, two, tissue
Cnidarians are _____ symmetrical, capture their prey with stinging cells called ____, and have ___ germ layers and have a ____ level of organization, making them the first of the eumetazoans.
molting
Lophotrochozoans are different from protostomes because they increase their body size WITHOUT _____.
Lophotrophozoans
Flatworms, Molluscs and Annelids make up the group called ______.
lophophore
The Lopho in Lophotrophozoans refers to the tentacle-like feeding structure called a ____ .
trochophore
The Trocho in Lophotrophozoans refers to a larval stage called _____,that is characterized by a distinct band of cilia.
bilateral, three, coelom
Flat worms are of _____ symmetry, have ___ levels of germ layer but have no _____.
body, nervous
Flat worms are called planarians, and have several ____ systems, including a ladder like _____ system.
hermaphrodites
Planarians are _______, meaning that they posses both male an female sex organs.
tapeworms, flukes
Parasitic flat worms belong to two classes, the ___ and _____.
coelomate
Molluscs are coelomate/acoelomate organisms with a complete digestive tract.
visceral mass, foot, mantle
All Molluscs bodies are made of 3 distinct parts, the ____ ______, is the soft-bodied portion that contains internal organs, the ____ is the strong muscular portion used for locomotion, and the ____ is a membrane that covers, but does not completely close the visceral mass.
shell
In molluscs, the mantle may secrete an exoskeleton called a ____.
radula
In molluscs, there is a tongue-like structure called a ____, an organ with teeth to obtain food.
Gastropods - i.e. snails
______, (meaning stomach footed) the animal moves by muscle contractions that pass along the foot.
Cephalopods - i.e. octopus
_____, (meaning head-footed), the foot has evolved into tentacles around the head.
bivalves
Oysters, muscles and clams are called ____, because they have tow parts to their shells.
Food, pearls
Molluscs have some economic importance as a source of ____ and ____.
segmented
Annelids are _____, as can be seen by the rings that encircle the body.
digestive, nervous, nephridium
Annelids have a fluid filled coelom, a _____ system (pharnyx, esophagus, crop, intestine, etc), a _____ system, with a brain connected to a ventral nerve cord and a_____, that is a tubule to collect waste and excrete.
Annelids
Earthworms, leeches and clam worms are examples of ______.
exoskeleton
The name ecdysozoan means these animals must secrete a nonliving ______ in order for the organism to grow.
roundworms, anrthropods
Two types of ecdysozoans are _____ and ____.
Jointed appendages
What gives arthropods the ability to move?
exoskeleton
What do Arthropods have that is made of chitin, giving them protection, muscle attachment and locomotion?
segmentation
What gives Arthropods jointed appendages, such as a head, thorax and abdomen?
nervous system
What do Arthropods possess that supports the brain and nerve cord?
respiratory organs
what do Arthropods have that have a means of taking in oxygen?
Metamorphosis
What is the process by which Arthropods undergo a change in form and physiology as a larva to become an adult?
lobster, crabs, shrimp
What is an example of a Crustacean (Arthropod) that has a hard crusty shell?
segmented, six
Arthropods are animals with _____ bodies and ____ or more jointed legs.
insects
What are the only arthropods that are powered by flight?
8, spiders
Arachnids have ___ eight legs and the most well known arachnids are ___.
10
Crustaceans have ___ or more legs.
Echinoderms, Chordates
The two types of Deuterostomes are ____ and ____.
radially
Echinoderms are radially/bilaterally symmetrical.
no
Do Echinoderms have a brain and/or nervous system?
Starfish
What is an example of a Echinoderm?
Echinoderms
What animal in the evolutionary line are most closely related to chordates?
water
Echinoderms locomotion depends on a ____ vascular system
do not
Echinoderms do/do not have a complex respiratory, excretory or circulatory system?
1) dorsal supporting rod - notochord
2) dorsal tubular nerve cord
3) pharyngeal pouches
4) tail
What are the 4 characteristics of a Chordate?
notochord, vertebral column
Lancelets and Tunicates are examples of chordates in which the ______ is never replaced by the _______ ______.
vertebrae
What evolutionary trend distinguishes the chordate invertebrates from fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals?
True
Vertebrates have all 4 chordate characteristics during embryonic development. T/F
Amphibians
_____ were the first group to have jointed appendages and to invade land.
jawless fish
The first vertebrates were ___ ____.
jawless, cartilaginous and bony
What are the 3 types of fish?
cartilage (i.e. shark)
Cartilaginous fish have skeletons made out of _____ instead of bone.
Amphibians
______ were the first chordates to make their way to land.
water, land
Most amphibians have larva stages in the ____ and adult stages on ___.
limbs
What feature distinguishes amphibians from lobe-finned fishes?
lungs
What feature distinguishes lobe-finned fish from bony fish?
bony skeleton
What feature distinguishes bony fish from cartilaginous fish?
amniotic egg
What feature distinguishes amphibians from reptiles?
mammary glands
What feature distinguishes reptiles from mammals?
ectothermic
Reptiles are _____, which means their body temperature matches that of the outside environment.
Birds
The reptile class includes ____.
endothermic
Birds are ______ and generate internal heat.
hair, mammary glands
The two chief characteristics of mammals are _____ and ____.
digestive
Monotremes are mammals that have a cloaca, a terminal region of the ______ tract.
inside the female's body
Marsupials begin their development _____.
placental
The majority of mammals are ______.
food, locomotion
Mammals are distinguished by their methods of obtaining _____ and their mode of ____.
herbivore, carnivore
The size of mammals teeth determine whether they are an ____ or ____.
prosimians
The common ancestor for all primates are the _____.
anthropoids
The _____ include monkeys, apes and humans.
Hominids
_____ include apes, chimpanzees and humans.
opposable
Primates have both an _____ thumb or toe.
African apes
Humans are most closely related to ____ ___.
ancestor
Humans and apes SHARE a common ___, and did NOT evolve from apes.
Bipedalism
The characteristic allowing a hominin to stand erect and walk on two feet is ____.
Mosaic
____ evolution is when different body parts change at different rates and therefore at different times.
Australopithecines
A group of hominins that evolved and diversified in Africa about 4MYA - Lucy.
Homo habilis
Early ancestor with omnivorous and plants, used tools and had language.
Homo Erectus
The first hominins to use fire and more advanced tools over 1.9-1.6 MYA.
Multiregional continuity hypothesis
What hypothesis stipulates that homo erectus migrated to Europe, Asia and Africa into homo sapiens?
Replacement Model or out-of-africa model
Suggest homo erectus evolved ONLY in Africa and later migrated to Europe & Asia.
mothers
Mitochondrial DNA can only be passed through our ____, which can be traced back.
Cro-Magnons
___ are the oldest fossils to be designated Homo Sapiens found in France.
Neandertals
H. Sapiens present in Eurasia some 200,0000 years ago.
b) a choanoflagellate
Which of the following protists is hypothesized to be ancestral to animals?

a) a green algal protist
b) a choanoflagellate
c) an amoeboid protist
d) a slime mold
d) none of these are correct - sponges are at the beginning of the evolutionary chain of animals
Sponges are ancestors of:

a) cnidarians
b) protostomes
c) deuterostomes
d) none of these are correct
chordates
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

Must have endoskeleton
flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, chordates
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

typically billaterally symmetrical as adults
flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, echinoderms
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

nonsegmented
flatworms
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

lack any kind of coelom
arthropods
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

chitin exoskeleton
annelids
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

contain a mantle
echinoderms
Which group has the characteristics:

flatworms, roundworms, molluscs, annelids, arthropods, echinoderms, chordates

move by pumping water
b) thorax
Insects have wings and three pairs of legs attached to the

a) abdomen
b) thorax
c) head
d) midsection
e) all of these are correct
Cartilaginous fishes detect their prey by sensing

a) electrical currents
b) odors
c) pressure changes
d) more than one is correct
e) all of these are correct
c) ectothermic
Which of the following is not a feature of mammals?

a) hair
b) milk producing glands
c) ectothermic
d) four chambered heart
e) diaphragm to help expand lungs
a) australopithecus afarensis - bipedal but small brain
Which of these is matched correctly?

a) australopithecus afarensis - bipedal but small brain
b) homo habilis - made tools and migrated often
c) home erectus - had fire and migrated out of Europe to Africa
d) Homo sapiens - projecting face and had culture
e) both a and c are correct
a) ectoderm and endoderm
Cnidarians are considered to be organized at the tissue level because they contain:

a) ectoderm and endoderm
b) ectoderm
c) ectoderm and mesoderm
d) endoderm and mesoderm
e) mesoderm
a) redial symmetry
Which of the following is not a feature of a coelomate?

a) redial symmetry
b) three germ layers
c) complete digestive tract body plan
d) organ level of organization
d) cephalopod
The type of mollusc that has tentacles is a:

a) gastropod
b) bivalve
c) univalve
d) cephalopod
a) a segmented body
A feature of annelids is:

a) a segmented body
b) acoelomate
c) a sac body plan
d) radial symmetry
b) eight legs
Which of the following is not a feature of an insect?

a) compound eyes
b) eight legs
c) antennae
d) exoskeleton
e) jointed legs
e) beetle
Which of the following is not an arachnid?

a) spider
b) tick
c) mite
d) scorpion
e) beetle
a) ears
Unlike bony fishes, amphibians have

a) ears
b) jaws
c) a circulatory system
d) a heart
e) well-developed bladder
Which of the following is not an adaptation for flight in birds?

a) air sacs
b) modified forelimbs
c) bones with air cavities
d) acute vision
e) well-developed bladder
a) spiny anteater and duckbill platypus
Examples of monotremes include the

a) spiny anteater and duckbill platypus
b) opossum and koala
c) badger and skunk
d) porcupine and armadillo
b) mode of reproduction
Mammals are distinguished based on

a) size and hair type
b) mode of reproduction
c) number of limbs and method of caring for their young
d) number of mammary glands and number of offspring
d) bipedal locomotion
The first human-like feature to evolve in the hominins was

a) a large brain
b) massive jaws
c) a slender body
d) bipedal locomotion
d) all of the above
In H. hablilis enlargement of the portions of the brain associated with speech probably led to:

a) cooperative hunting
b) sharing of food
c) the development of culture
d) all of the above
b) replacement model (out of Africa)
Mitochondrial DNA data support which hypothesis for the evolution of humans?

a) multiregional continuity
b) replacement model (out of Africa)
b) gibbon
Which of the following is an anthropoid, but not a hominid?

a) human
b) gibbon
c) orangutan
d) chimpanzee
e) gorilla
a) sponge
Which of the following does not have cephalization?

a) sponge
b) planarian
c) frog
d) snail
e) scorpion
a) planarian
Which of the following is a bilaterally symmetrical, hermaphroditic acoelomate?

a) planarian
b) sponge
c) jellyfish
d) earthworm
e) sea start
leaf, stem & ogans
What are the plants 3 vegetative organs?
stem, root
Plant have a ____ system and a ____ system.
terminal
Activity at the ________ bud at tip of shoot causes shoot to increase in length.
deciduous
________ plants lose their leaves during a particular season for water conservation.
leaves
materials
tissue
Stem functions - support _____, transport ____ between roots and leaves and produce new ______.
lateral or axillary
Lateral branches grow from a ______ or ______ bud located where a leaf joins the stem.
node
A _____ is where a leaf attaches to a stem.
internode
______ is a region between nodes.
support
absorb
The two functions of roots are to ______ the plant by anchoring it in the soil and to _____ water and minerals.
hairs
The root _____ found in zone of root tip increase absorptive capacity of the root.
monocots
eudicots
Flowering plants are divided into two major groups, _____ and _____.
cotyledon
A _______ is the embryonic leaves present in the seeds.
moncot
Plants whose embryo has one cotyledon are known as ______.
eudicots
Plants whose embryo has two cotyledons are known as ______ .
xylem
phloem
Vascular plants have two types of transport tissue, the _____ for water and minerals and the ____ for organic nutrients.
ring
In monocots, the root xylem and phloem form a ____.
star
In eudicots the root xylem and phloem form a ____.
pararell
In monocots, the leaf veins form a _____ pattern.
net
In eudicots, the leaf veins from a ____ pattern.
threes
In monocots, the flower parts are in multiples of ____.
fours, fives
In eudicots, the flower parts are in multiples of ___ and ___.
seedlings
In euidcots, the cotyledons provide nutrients to their ___.
epidermis
The entire body of a plant is covered by an _______.
cuticle
Plant cells exposed to air are covered by a waxy ____.
stoma
In leaves, the epidermis often contains ______, a small opening surrounded by two guard cells, used for gas exchange and water loss to occur.