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32 Cards in this Set
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What is a Virus
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A Nonliving particle that invades and then multiplies inside a cell
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What is Replication
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Virus makes a copy of itself.
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What is a Bacteria
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A single celled organism. (That contains organels)
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what is a Flagellum
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A whip-like structure that helps the cell move
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what is Asexual reproduction
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The reproduction process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent.
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What is Binary fission
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The process of one cell divides to form two identical cells.
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What is Sexual reproduction
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A form of reproduction in which two parents combine their genetic material to produce a new organism. The new organism is not identical to either parent but instead has traits of both.
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What is Conjugation
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The process in which one bacterium transfers some genetic material to another bacterium through a threadlike bridge.
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What is an Endospore
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A small round-like thick walled cell that forms inside a bacteria cell.
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What is Pasteurization
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The process in which food is heated to a temp that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food.
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What is a Decomposers
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Organisms that break down large chemicals in dead organisms into smaller chemicals.
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What is a Protists
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Eukaryotes that can’t be classified as animals, plants, or fungi
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What is an Eukaryote
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A cell that cintains a nucleus.
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What is a Prokaryote
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A cell that does not contain a nucleus.
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What is Nucleus
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The part of a cell that controls all its functions. (The control center of the cell.)
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What is a Pseudopod
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False feet. (structures on a cell used to move.)
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What is a Contractile vacuole
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A structure within a cell that collects extra water and then expels it from the cell.
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What is Symbiosis
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A close relationship in which at least one of the species benefits.
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What is Mutualism
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When both partners benefit from living together.
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What is Algae
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Plant-like protists that live near surface of water.
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What is a Diatom
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A unicellular protists with glass-like cell walls.
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What is a Dinoflagellates
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A unicellular algae surrounded by stiff plates.
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What is a Eugenoid
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A green, unicellular algae are found in mostly in fresh water.
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What is Red Algae
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Multicellular seaweeds.
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What is Green Algae
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Unicellular and multicellular organism that lives in fresh and salt water.
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What is Brown Algae
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Organisms that flourish in cool, rocky waters.
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What is Slime Mold
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A spore (tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism.)
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What are Fungi
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Eukaryotes that have cell walls,they are also heterotrophic and that feed by absorbing food and use spores to reproduce.
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What is Hyphae
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Tube-like structures that make up bodies of multicellular fungi.
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What is a Fruiting body
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The reproductive structure of fungi.
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What is Budding
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The process in which unicellular yeast cells that undergo a form of asexual reproduction.
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What are Lichen
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fungus and either algae or autotrophic bacteria that live in a relationship.
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