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18 Cards in this Set
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Two parts of a virus |
nucleocapsid and helical tail |
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Couple roles of virus' |
control bacteria, chronic infection |
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What helps cyanobacteria stick together? |
mucilage |
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What is the nitrogen fixing thing in cyanobacteria? |
heterocysts |
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Three things that heterotrophic bacteria do |
consolidation, lithification, and sedimentation |
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Why is nitrification good? |
puts nitrogen to a form that primary producers can use |
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Couple features of archae |
extreme bacteria (but not actually), produce methane |
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Diatoms |
45% of primary productivity, very diverse |
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What is the strucutre of diatoms? |
frustule made of two valves |
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What is the auxospore? |
Diatom daughter cell that is the smaller one and increases in size |
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What can diatoms be used for |
deposit on the bottom that can be used as petroleum or sound proofing |
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What are haptophytes? |
unicellular algae with 2 flagella, have lot's of coccolithphores on it |
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Pellicle |
the term if the cell membrane and alveoli is complex |
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dinoflaggelates |
unicellular with two flagella |
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What is dinosporin? |
the chemical in the cellulose plates within alveoli of dinoflaggelates |
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What can dinoflagellates do? |
major component of phytoplankton, can be there in harmful algla blooms where high O2 is |
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What are ciliates? |
Protozoans with cilia for locomotion |
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Foraminiferans |
eat bacteria and diatoms, can crawl a bit. they have a certain ooze |
