Biology Ch. 16 – Flashcards

Alveolates are characterized by

You culture the dried soup from a 4,000-year-old cooking pot found in an Egyptian tomb and obtain a distinctive species of prokaryote. You immerse a test tube of these bacteria in boiling water for several hours, but the colony grows back. This species is probably

Individual prokaryotes cells are about _____ eukaryote cells; collectively. all prokaryotes cells on Earth _____.

Pairs of rod-shaped bacteria are called

________ are heterotrophic protists; _____ are photoautotrophic protists.

Which of the following cellular structures is characteristic of amoebas?

Chemoautotrophic bacteria obtain their carbon from ______ and their energy from _____.

Unlike archaean and eukaryotes cell walls, bacterial cell walls contain a unique substance called

A bacterium living in an underground septic tank thrives by absorbing organic compounds from decomposing castes. What is it?

Evidence for the relatively close relationship of archaea to eukaryotes includes

Prokaryotes genomes often include a central ring of DNA plus small accessory rings of DNA that carry genes involved in "contingency" functions. There secondary rings of DNA are called

According to this figure, which type of protist resulted from a single endosymbiosis event in its ancestry?

Intestinal gas is evidence of active ______ in one's digestive tract.

Prokaryotes are classified into

The largest group of prokaryotes is the ______, which obtain both energy and carbon from ______.

The term for a close association between organisms of two or more species is

Euglenazoans, dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, and stramenopiles all are protists groups in which some-but not all-species are photoautotrophic. According to current thinking, the organelles that enable photosynthesis in these groups are

Protists include

Which of the following options correctly pairs a structure with its function in prokaryote cells?

Which of the following is a member of the domain Archaea?

Dichotomous Key