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What is the order of the taxonomic naming system? |
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order Family, Genus, Species |
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What is the life cycle of animals? |
2n -> Meiosis -> Gametes -> Fertilization -> Zygote -> Mitosis |
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What is the life cycle for plants and algae? |
2N -> Meiosis -> Mitosis/ Spores -> |
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What is haploid? |
contains only one of each 23 chromosomes in the human genome. |
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What is a diploid? |
A cell or nucleus containing cells from each parent |
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What is a gamete? |
A mature haploid male or female cell that is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote |
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What is a zygote? |
a diploid cell resulting from two haploid gametes |
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What is meiosis? |
cell division that results in 4 daughter cells each with half the chromosomes from the parent cell. |
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What is mitosis? |
Cell division that results in two daughter cells having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus |
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What is the vascular tissue? |
consisting of phloem and xylem, transports water and nutrients throughout the trees |
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What is a gymnosperm? |
A plant that has seeds that are unprotected by an ovary or fruit. Includes conifers, cycads, and ginkgo |
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What is an angiosperm? |
A plant that has flowers and and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel. Includes most herbaceous plants, shrubs, grasses, and most trees |
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Where does meiosis occur? |
in the stamen, ovary, ovule, and seed |
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What is bilateral symmetry and radial symmetry? |
bilateral is can be cut in half evenly, radial is like a pizza |
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What are Protostomes? |
a multicellular organisms whos mouth develops from a primary embryonic opening , such as annelid, mollusk or arthropod |
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What are deuterostomes? |
multicellular organism whos first opening becomes the anus |
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What are the four things that all chordata have at some stage in their life spans? |
Notochord (allows movement), pharyngeal slits (gills), dorsal hollow nerve chord, post anal tail |
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What are the 3 main branches of the mammalian phylogeny? |
Monotremes, Marsupials, eutherians |
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What are Montremes-Prototheria known for? |
egg layers (oviparous) |
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What are marsupials- metatheria known for? |
shelled embryo, live birth (vivaparous) |
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What are Placentals - eutheria known for? |
live birth w/ placenta |
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4 things that will determine if a species is present |
1. Dispersal, 2. Want to live there, 3. Other species allowed, 4. Environment |
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What are seedless vascular plants? |
Produce and spread through spores, plants that contain vascular tissue but do not flower or seed example: ferns, club moss |
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Defining characteristics of ecdysozoa? |
three layered cuticle |
