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Helminths |
General term for worms, especially parasitic worms |
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Domain and Kingdom of Helminths |
Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Animalia |
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Taenia |
A helminth known also known as a tapeworm Can be ingested when consuming undercooked meat Attaches to intestinal wall via hooks on their scolexes. |
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Scolex |
The section on a taenia that contains hooks and suckers |
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What are the sections of a taenia? What is special about them? |
Proglottids They are independent segments and are filled with eggs |
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Clonorchis |
A helminth also known as a liver fluke Attach to the liver using suckers and live off of blood |
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Green algae |
Photosynthetic eukaryotic (domain) microorganisms in the plantae kingdom Some are filamentous, some are single celled, and some are colonial |
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Filamentous |
Cells linked together in a chain |
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Colonial |
Cells living together in a group |
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Types of green algae |
1. Spirogyra 2. Volvox 3. Chlamydomonas |
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Types of helminths |
1. Taenia 2. Clonorchis |
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Spirogyra |
Filamentous algae with chloroplasts, arranged in a spiral fashion |
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Chloroplasts |
Organelles that carry out photosynthesis |
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How do spirogyra sexually reproduce? |
Via conjugation tubes |
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Volvox |
Colonial algae with thousands of individual cells arranged in a sphere, sometimes with daughter colonies inside the spheres Either stained green or purple |
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Daughter colonies |
The offspring of volvox which form inside the parent volvox |
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Chlamydomonas |
Single celled algae with flagella and light sensing stigma May be stained red or green |
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Flagella |
Whip-like appendages used for movement |
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Cyanobacteria |
Oxygen producing, photosynthetic bacteria Environmentally important for their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen and produce oxygen Some species have gas vacuoles |
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Gas vacuoles |
Allow for buoyancy in cyanobacteria |
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Types of cyanobacteria |
1. Oscillatoria 2. Anabaena 3. Gloeocapsa |
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Domain and Kingdom of cyanobacteria |
Domain Bacteria, Kingdom Bacteria |
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Oscillatoria |
Filamentous and rectangular Cells appear to stack on top of one another like rungs on a ladder |
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Anabaena |
Filamentous chain of spheres Sometimes contains heterocysts |
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Heterocysts |
Swollen specialized cells used for nitrogen fission |
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Gloeocapsa |
Non filamentous unicellular cyanobacteria that are composed of 1 - 4 spheres surrounded by an obvious gelatin sheath |
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Mold |
A common form of fungi that form filamentous masses Some produce antibiotics Reproduce sexually and asexually Release spores which can travel via air to new air locations |
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Domain and Kingdom of mold |
Domain Eukarya, Kingdom Fungi |
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Penicillium |
Filamentous mold that shows conidiophores, which will release conidia |
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Conidiophores |
Spore producing structures |
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Conidia |
Asexual spores |
