CH:2

Cards (36)

  • Carbohydrate that is made up of in cell wall?
    Cellulose
  • Storage carbohydrate in cells?
    Starch
  • Transported around the plants (mostly in fruits)
    Sucrose
  • Scientific name of humans
    Homo sapiens
  • Five major groups of living organisms?
    Plants
    animals
    fungi
    bacteria
    Protoctists
  • Two types of animals
    Vertebrate
    invertebrate
  • vertebrate meaning
    has vertebral column or backbone
  • invertebrate meaning

    lacks vertebral column or backbone
  • Are animals unicellular or multicellular?
    They are multicellular.
  • Which carbohydrate is stored in animal cells?
    Glycogen
  • What do fungi include? (Types)

    Moulds
    mushrooms and toadstools
    yeasts
  • yeast cell (diagram)

    -unicellular
    -never contain chloroplasts
    -made up of chitin (not cellulose)
  • what is the reproductive structure called the fruiting body?
    Mushroom or toadstool
  • How do you call fine thread-like filaments? (In mould)
    Hyphae
  • the network of hyphae is called..?
    Mycelium
  • Mould cell (diagram)
    -contains many nuclei in cytoplasm
    -are not divided into separate cells
  • The definition of saprotrophic nutrition?
    .
  • Types of Protoctists
    Plant-like
    animal-like
    Fungi like
    pathogenic
  • plant like protoctist
    algae or chlorella
  • animal like prototist
    amoeba
  • fungi like protoctist
    slime mold
  • pathogenic (protoctist)
    Plasmodium
  • what does plasmodium cause?
    Malaria
  • What is eukaryotic?
    It means having a nucleus.
  • what is prokaryotic?
    it means no nucleus.
  • Bacteria diagram
    -small single-celled organism
  • what is the bacteria’s cell wall made of?
    Peptidoglycan (complex compound of sugars and proteins)
  • what is the layer outside of cell wall? (Bacteria)
    Capsule or slime layer
  • What does bacteria include in its cytoplasm?
    A circular loop of DNA and plasmids
  • Types of bacteria
    Spheres, rods, spirals
  • Can bacterias swim?
    Yes. They have corkscrew-like movements of structure called flagella.
  • Why are bacterias important?
    They are important decomposers. (Feed on dead matters)
  • What can produce yoghurt from milk?
    Lactobacillus bulgaricus
  • Virus diagram
    -are parasites
    -live in a host cell
    -surrounded by a core of genetic material called protein coating
    -membrane is called envelope (from host cell)
  • Viruses and diseases
    Virus- HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)
    disease- AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
    causes- destroy immune system
    affected organism- human
    Virus- tobacco mosaic virus
    disease- tobacco mosaic disease
    causes- decoloration of plants
    affected organism- tobacco plant
  • Differences between bacteria and virus
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