Cliffs Ap Biology Ch 9 Biological Diversity

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Name the successional order of taxonomy starting from Domain to species.

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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species

Pneumonic "Dumb Kids Playing Chase On Freeways Get Squashed"

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What are the three characteristics of a eukaryotic cell?

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1. DNA associated with histones
2. Membrane Bound Organelles
3. Linear Chromosomes

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What are the three characteristics of a prokaryotic cell?

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1. Circular DNA
2. No Nucleus
3. No organelles

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What is the term used to describe the group of organism whose type of energy aquisition includes manufacturing their own organic molecules?

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Autotrophs

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What is the term used to describe the group of organism who use light energy to drive metabolic processes, and create their own carbon sources?

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Photoautrophs

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What is the term used to describe the group of organism who use chemical energy to drive metabolic processes and create their own carbon molecules for food?

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Chemoautotrophs

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What is the term used to describe the group of organism who get their carbon source from consuming organic materials?

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Heterotrophs

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What is the term used to define organisms that obtain energy from living tissues of the host?

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Parasites

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What is the term used to define organisms that obtain energy from dead organic matter?

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Decomposers (Saprobes)

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What is the term used to define organisms that must have oxygen to live?

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Obligate Aerobes

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What is the term used to define organisms that cannot live in the presense of oxygen?

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Obligate Anaerobes

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What is the term used to define organisms that can grow in the presense or absense of oxygen?

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Facultative Anaerobes

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What are some defining characteristics of the domain archaea? (3)

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1. Cell walls contain various polysaccharides but not peptidoglycans, cellulose or chitin.
2. Ether linked phospholipid membranes
3. DNA associated with histones

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What is the term used to define organisms that obtain energy from using H2 to fix CO2 and produce methane?

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Methanogens

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What is the term used to define organisms that live in environments with high salt?

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Halophiles

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What is the term used to define organisms that live in very hot environments (greater then 60 degrees celsius).

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Thermophiles

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What is the term used to define a resistant body that contains genetic material and a small amount of cytoplasm surrounded by a durable cell wall that allows bacteria to resist high pH, High Temp, etc.

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Endospore

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What is the term used to define a group of bacteria that are photosynthetic using chlorphyll a to capture energy splitting H20 releasing O2 as do plants for electrons?

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Cyanobacteria

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What is the term used to define a group of bacteria that convert nitrite to nitrate?

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Nitrifying bacteria

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What is the term used to define a group of bacteria that are coiled and move in a corkscrew motion?

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Spirochetes

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What type of organism create nerve toxins that concentrate in filter-feeding fish, which can cause illness in humans if eaten?

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Dinoflagellates

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What type of organisms have shells that fit like a box with a lid that consist of silica?

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Diatoms

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What type of organisms consist of giant seaweeds or kelp?

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Brown Algae

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What type of organism contain red acessory pigments called phycobilisomes and have gametes that do not have flagella?

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Rhodophyta

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What type of organism are ameobas that move by pseudopodia?

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Rhizopoda

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What type of organism have shells made of calcium carbonate?

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Foraminifera

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What type of organism are parasites of animals?

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Apicocomplexans

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What type of organism are distinguished by their cilia?

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Ciliates

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What type of organism include water molds, downy mildews, and white rusts?

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Oomycota

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What do the cell walls of fungi consist of?

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Chitin

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Fungi can either be saprobes or XXXXXXXX?

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Parasites

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XXXXXXXX are mutualistic associations between fungi and algae?

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Lichens

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What is the term used to define a structure on plants that is a waxy covering on aerial parts that reduces dessication?

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Cuticle

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In plants the Xylem is specialized for XXXXXXXX transport, while the Phloem is specialized for XXXXXX transport.

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Water/Sugar

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What is the term used to define a type of plant that sheds its leaves during the slow growing season to reduce water loss?

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Deciduous Trees

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The XXXXXXX consist of three groups of unspecified plants: the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

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Bryophytes

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XXXXXXXXX include the club mosses, spike mosses, and quilworts.

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Lycophyta

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XXXXXXXX include three groups of plants called the ferns, horsetails, and whisk ferns?

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Pterophyta

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XXXXXXXX plants include pines, firs, junipers, spruces, redwoods, cedars, etc?

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Coniferophyta

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XXXXXXX consist of flowering plants that develope fruits.

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Angiosperms aka Anthophyta

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Are all organisms in the animal kingdom heterotrophic?

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Yes

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of sponges?

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Porifera

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of hydrozoa, jellyfish, sea anemones, and coral?

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Cnidaria

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of flatworms grouped into through categories called flukes, tapeworms, and proglottids?

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Platyhelminthes

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of roundworms?

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Nematoda

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of filter feeders drawing water and food into the moth by beating of cilia, these organisms are called rotifers?

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Rotifera

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of snails, bivalves, octopuses, and squids?

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Mollusca

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of segmented worms, which include leeches and earthworms?

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Annelida

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What is the term used to describe a group of organisms in the animal kingdom that consists of sea stars, sea urchins, and sand dollars?

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Echinodermata

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Animals in the group chordata have four main features that distinguish them, what are those features?

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1. Notochord
2. Dorsal Hollow Nerve Chord
3. Pharyngeal Gill Slits
4. Muscular Tail

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The group of chordates that consists of the lancelets and tnuicates are called the XXXXXX?

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Invertebrates

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The group of chordates that consists of the shark, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are called the XXXXXX?

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Vertebrates