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Chapter 10
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Bacteria and Viruses
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a type of ___ is responsible for food poisoning.
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Pathogenic
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an ___ is a thick protective membrane that contains an inative bacterium
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endospore
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____ is used to clean up industrial, agricultural, and muntipal wastes
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Biomediation
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_____ are medicines used to kill bacteria
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Antibotics
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_____ digest milk sugar and convert in into an acid
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Lactic-acid bacteria
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Bacteria that make thier own food are examples of ___
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autotrophs
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What is not a common shape of Bacteria?
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Crystals
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A cell with no nucleus is called __
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Prokaryote
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When the host cell divides during ___ each new cell carries the genetic material of the virus
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The lysogenic Cycle
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What is the one function that viruses share with living things?
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They Reproduce
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What is not a true statement about binary fission?
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The new bacterium is gentically different from the parent bacterium
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What is not true about viruses?
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Viruses obtain nutrients from their hosts' cells
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Chapter 11
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Protists and Fungi
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____ obtain their food from dead organic matter or the body of another organism
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Funguslike Protists
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Animal like protists are also known as __
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Protozoa
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Multicellular fungi are made up of chains of cells called ___
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hyphae
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The major part of the fungus is the _____
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Mycelium
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Yeasts, Powdery, Mildews, truffles, and morels are examples of ____
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Fungi
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What is not a plantlike protist?
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ciliate
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Club Fungi produce special hyphae that develop?
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Basidia
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____ Can be found in water,melting snow, tree trunks and inside living organisms
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Green Algae
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Euglenas and ciliates have a special structure called a ___ that collects and removes excess water form the cell
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Contractile Vacuole
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Which animal like protist causes malaria?
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Plasmodium vivax
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What is not a true statement about fungi?
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All fungi are multicellular
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Chapter 12
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Intro to Plants
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The ___ stage of a fern is a tiny plant that produces eggs and sperm
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Gametophye
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Pollen grains collect on the ___ of a flower which is often sticky or feathery
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Stigma
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Ferns have an underground stem called a __
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Rhizome
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The center of a flower contains one or more female reproductive structures called __
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Pistls
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____ typically absorbs water that is close to the soil surface
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Fibrous Roots
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Water enters a plant by passing through the __ of a root and into the __
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epidermis, Xylem
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Flowering plants uch as apple trees and daisies...
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Are classified as angiosperms
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Dicots always have two...
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Cotyledons
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Cycads, confiers, gnetophytes, and ginkgoes are __
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gymnosperms
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Roots...
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Absorb water and minerals
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Plants that have specialized tissues for carrying minerals, water, food are classified as __ plants
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vascular
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What is not true about leaves?
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Leaves are part of a plants root system
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Chapter 13
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Plant Processes
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The maple tree, which loses its leaves each year is ____
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Deciduous
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In a process called ____ plants convert energy stored in food into a form of energy that cells can use
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Cellular respiration
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The tendency to shoot tips of plants to grow and bend toward the light is called ___
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Phototropism
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Seeds become ___ in order to survive periods of drought or cold temps.
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Dormant
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Most of the water absorbed by a plants roots is needed to replace the water lost during ___
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Transpiration
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A houseplant that is bending toward a sunlit window is?
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Displaying positive tropism
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The root tips of most plants show?
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Positive gravitropism
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Plant cells make glucose molecules from...
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C02 and H20
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Leaves beome red and orange in autumn because..
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Their green cholorphyll breaks down
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The energy phtosynthesis comes from___
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Light given off by the sun
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A plant seed develps from___
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an ovule
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Chapter 14
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Animals and Behavior
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all animals are ___ and have eukaryotic cells
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Multicellular
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a collection of similar cells is known as___
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tissue
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___ is an animals internal control of natural cycles
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Biological Clock
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All animals are ____
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Consumers
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Some animals use the earths magnetic field to ____
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Navigate
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What is not an example of how animals might deal with food shortages?
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Social Behavior
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Reading is an example of __
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A learned Behavior
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all __ lack a skull and backbone
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Invertebrates
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What statement about communication between animals is false.
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It occurs only between members of the same species
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The relationship between a worm and a robin can be expressed as_
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Prey and Predator
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The use of __ is an example of chemical communication
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pheromones
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Any animal with a skull and backbone is calssified as __
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Vertebrate
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