variety of living organisms

Cards (12)

  • how do plants store carbohydrates?
    as starch or sucrose
  • what is the structure of fungi?
    mycelium from thread-like structures called hyphae - contain many nuclei
  • how do fungi feed?
    saprotrophic nutrition
  • how do fungi store carbohydrate?
    glycogen
  • examples of fungi?
    Mucor and yeast
  • eukaryotic organisms?
    plants, animals, fungi, protoctists
  • examples of protoctists?
    Amoeba, chlorella, plasmodium - causes malaria
  • prokaryotic organisms?
    bacteria
  • pathogen examples?
    fungi, bacteria, protoctists, viruses
  • structure of viruses?
    protein coat, either DNA or RNA
  • are viruses smaller than bacteria?
    yes
  • examples of viruses?
    tobacco mosaic virus - discolours leaves of tobacco plants by preventing the formation of chloroplasts
    influenza virus - causes flu
    HIV virus - causes AIDS