Exam 1 Bingo Questions
- A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence. HYPOTHESIS
- A broad explanation of facts made on the basis of substantial evidence. THEORY
- Science based on deductive reasoning.HYPOTHESIS-BASED
- Science based on observations and inductive reasoning.DISCOVERY-BASED
- Evolutionary history of an organism.PHYLOGENY
- Unicellular organisms with no membrane-enclosed organelles.PROKARYOTES
- Organisms with a true nucleus.EUKARYOTES
- Group of organisms that includes pathogenic prokaryotes.BACTERIA
- Group of organisms that includes extremophiles.ARCHAEA
- Highly resistant bacterial cells that can be dormant for years.ENDOSPORES
- Polymer in the cell walls of bacteria.PEPTIDOGLYCAN
- Organisms that create organic molecules from carbon dioxide.AUTOTROPHS
- Organisms that create organic molecules from digested foods.CHEMOTROPHS
- Organisms that don’t use oxygen, but are not poisoned by it.AEROTOLERANT ANAEROBES
- Organisms that don’t require oxygen, but will use it when available.FACULTATIVE ANAEROBES
- The most diverse eukaryotic kingdom.PROTISTS
- Protist supergroup named for their excavated feeding groove. EXCAVATA
- Kinetoplastid that causes sleeping sickness. Vectored by the tsetse fly.TRYPANOSOMA
- Protist supergroup named for sacs under their membrane.ALVEOLATA
- Organisms possessing both a macro- and micro-nucleus.CILIATES
- Apicomplexan that causes malaria. Vectored by the mosquito.PLASMODIUM
- Organisms that cause red tides.DINOFLAGELLATES
- Protist supergroup named for their additional hairy flagellum.STRAMENOPILA
- Algae with walls made of silica. Are often fossilized.DIATOMS
- Organism responsible for the Irish Potato Blight and Sudden Oak Death.OOMYCETES
- Protist supergroup named for their threadlike pseudopodia.RHIZERIA
- Protist supergroup including gymnamoebes, entamoebes, and slime molds.AMOEBOZOA
- Supergroup including fungi, animals, and similar protists.OPISTHOKONTA
- An interwoven mass of hyphae.MYCELIUM
- Symbiotic association between fungi and green algae or cyanobacteria.LICHEN
- Symbiotic association between fungi and plant roots.MYCORRHIZAE
- Includes bread molds.ZYGOMYCOTA
- Includes sac fungi and yeasts. Organisms may possess asexual conidia.ASCOMYCOTA
- Also known as “club fungus”.BASIDIOMYCOTA
- Polymer in the cell walls of fungi.CHITIN
- Fusion of the cytoplasm during sexual reproduction in fungi.PLASMOGAMY
- Fusion of the nuclei during sexual reproduction in fungi.KARYOGAMY
Exam 2 Bingo Questions
- Plant generation that forms spores.SPOROPHYTE
- Plant generation that forms gametes.GAMETOPHYTE
- Algal ancestor of plants.CHAROPHYCEAN
- Waxy covering that helps prevent plants from drying out.CUTICLE
- Scientific name for “liverworts”.HEPATOPHYTA
- Scientific name for “hornworts”. ANTHOCEROPHYTA
- Female gametangia that produce and enclose eggs.ARCHEGONIA
- Male gametangia that produce sperm.ANTHERIDIA
- Refers to plants in which there is one type of spore.HOMOSPOROUS
- Refers to plants in which there is a megaspore and microspore.HETEROSPOROUS
- Structure composed of an embryo, food supply, and coat.SEED
- Seedless, avascular plants.FERNS
- Vascular plants with naked seeds.GYMNOSPERMS
- Vascular plants with seeds covered by ovaries.ANGIOSPERMS
- Phylum including evergreens.CONIFEROPHYTA
- Largest, most diverse plant phylum.ANTHOPHYTA
- Flowers in which the stamens and pistils are on one flower.PERFECT FLOWER
- Flowers in which the stamens and pistils are on separate flowers.IMPERFECT FLOWER
- Protistal ancestor of animals.CHOANOFLAGELLATE
- Animal division regarding the presence of true tissues.PARAZOA v. EUMETAZOA
- Animal division regarding symmetry.RADIATA v. BILATERIA
- Animal division regarding the fate of the blastopore.PROTOSTOMA v. DEUTEROSTOMA
- Animal division regarding the presence of an exoskeleton.LOPHOTROCHOZOA v. ECDYSOZOA
- Refers to animals with a coelom completely surrounded by mesoderm.COELOMATES
- Refers to animals with a coelom partially surrounded by mesoderm.PSEUDOCOELOMATES
- Refers to animals lacking a body cavity.ACOELOMATES
- Asymmetrical animals with no true tissues.PORIFERA
- Diploblastic animals with radial symmetry.CNIDARIA
- Scientific name for “flatworms”.PLATYHELMINTHES
- Microscopic freshwater organisms that undergo parthenogenesis.ROTIFERA
- Animal phylum including gastropoda, bivalvia, and cephalopoda.MOLLUSCA
- Animal phylum including earthworms, polychaetes, and leeches.ANNELIDA
- Animal phylum with a chitin cuticle. Cause trichinosis.NEMATODA
- Largest, most successful animal phylum. Have an open circulatory system.ARTHROPODA
- Animal phylum named for their spiny skin.ECHINODERMATA