Review Questions for Classification
- What are the three basic shapes of bacteria?
- Describe a virus.
- What is a phage?
- What is interferon?
- The earliest organisms were most like what present day organisms?
- Name a photosynthetic Moneran looking like an alga.
- Prokaryotic means what?
- In order to identify bacteria down to species, you must consider what about them?
- What does holotrophic, saprophytic, and chemosynthetic mean?
- Name the domains of the following: thermophiles, blue-green algae and liverworts.
- How are the various classes of the Protozoa classified?
- What are the groups of the following: Endamoeba, Paramecium, and Gymnodinium?
- What is a pseudopod?
- What cells distinguish the Tracheophytes from the Bryophytes?
- What is a slime mold?
- What is a lichen?
- Define the following terms: sporangium, antheridium, archegonium, and gametophyte.
- Know the life cycle diagram of the liverwort.
- Know the diagram of the generalized sporophyte and gametophyte life cycle.
- What is the difference between a spore and a gamete?
- Know the life cycle diagram of the fern.
- Where does meiosis and mitosis occur in the generalized life cycle of the plant?
- Know the diagram of the flower.
- Where is the gametophyte stage in the flower anatomy?
- Know the different types of coelom formations (diagram).
- Know what each cell layer is called (ectoderm, endoderm, mesoderm) and what tissues they form.
- Be able to label the phyla of an unlabeled Kingdom diagram of the Animalia.
- Name the following structures: collar cells, madroporite, flame cells, cnidocytes, podia, medusae, porocyte, amebocyte and a choanocyte.
- Know how many germ layers each phylum has.
- Know the kind of symmetry each phylum demonstrates
- Know the following terms: hyphal strand, mycelium, sporangiophore and sporangium
- How are the Fungi classified?
- How are the tissues formed in Fungi and how is it different from the Plantae?
- What are the differences in cell wall composition and food storage sugars between the Fungi and the Plantae?
- What is a pinnae?
- What is a fiddle neck?
- What features in plants allowed for a growth in height?
- Oral and aboral are associated with what kind of symmetry?
- Can an organism has radial symmetry and a brain?
- What is the function of the collar cells?
- What was the first animal to show a complete digestive tract (refer to the Kingdom tree)?
- What was the first animal to show bilateral symmetry?
- What is the function of a flame cell?
- What phylum has no true tissues (therefore no germ layers)?
- What is the first phylum to have three germ layers?
- Can you have two germ layers and a coelom?
- What is the evolutionary sequence of support in vertebrates?
- What animal group was the first to develop a protective skin for land invasion?
- Mammals and birds are derived from what animal group?
- Name the three main mammals groups and method of reproduction.
- What is the digestive system with only one opening?
- What animal group developed the first land egg?
- Label the parts of the water vascular system in Echinoderms.
- Regarding the two main branches of the animal tree, what is the difference betwen the Arthropod line the the Vertebrate line?