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| What is the similar characteristic between protistans and eubacteria? |
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| they have unicellular organisms within them. |
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| Kingdom Eubacteria includes: |
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| Kingdom Protista includes: |
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| Are Bacteria heterotrophic or autotrophic? |
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| is cyanobateria heterotrophic or autotrophic? |
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| autotrophic (photosynthetic) |
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| Name three types of heterotrophic bacteria: |
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| pathogens, decomposers, nitrogen-fixers |
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| breaking down and recycling of waste products. |
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| capturing the gaseous nitrogen in the atmosphere and making it available to plants via a symbiotic association with their roots. |
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| What are the 3 shapes bacteria exist in? |
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| coccus, bacillus, and spirillum. |
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| Besides shape, what is another way bacteria can be sorted? |
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| according to how they react to a staining procedure called Gram stain. |
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| What are two reasons Gram staining is important to bacteriologists? |
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| It is one of the first steps in identifying unknown bacteria and the reaction indicates a bacteriums susceptibility or resistance to certain antibiotics. |
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| Which color indicates that the bacterium is suseptible to penicillin? |
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| Another name for cyanobacteria? |
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| the three types of symbiosis? |
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| parasitism, commensalism, mutualism |
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| one organism lives at the expense of the other |
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| occurs when effects are positive for one species and neutral for the other |
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| both organisms benefit from living together |
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| cells that are a bit larger than other cells. |
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| membranes on and in which the photsynthetic pigments are found. |
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| the two types of protistans? |
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| green(photoautotrophic) and nongreen (heterotrophic) |
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| membranes on and in which the photsynthetic pigments are found. |
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| What are phylum chytridiomycota? |
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| a very simple protistan that mostly live on dead matter but some are parasitic. |
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| the basic unit of a fugal body |
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| all the hyphae constitute this |
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| dese tips are cell specialized for asexual reproduction. |
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| both male and female gamettangia are produced on the same mycelium. |
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| organisms producing one type of sex organ on another body. |
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| domain of all prokaryotic cells except archaebacteria, also called a kingdom. |
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| cells having a nucleus and other membrane bound organelles. |
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| two subunits of rRNA and proteins that breifly join together as a structure on which mRNA is tranlated into polypeptide chains. |
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| organism unable to make its own organic compounds. |
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| any organism that makes its own food with an environmental energy sourse and CO2 as its carbon source. |
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| Any virus, bacterium, fungus, protistan, or parasitic worm that can infect an organism, multiply in it, and cause disease. |
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