Life on earth

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Decks in this class (36)

thinking about life on earth and maybe elsewhere
What does it mean to be alive 1,
What criteria is required to be a...,
What are the three domains of life 3
3  cards
taxonomy and systematics
Taxonomy definition 1,
Systematics definition 2,
What is the need for classificati...
5  cards
phylogenetic
What is topology 1,
What are branch lengths 2,
What are phylogenetic trees const...
5  cards
diversity of bacteria and archea
Phototrophs 1,
Chemotrophs 2,
Autotrophs 3
9  cards
cell structure of bacteria and archaea
Bacteria surrounding structure 1,
Bacteria morphology 2,
What is adhesive pili 3
7  cards
bacterial and archaeal energetics
Where does glycolysis occur 1,
Glycolysis 2 phases 2,
What is the krebs cycle 3
12  cards
Diverse roles of prokaryotes in environment
Blank 1
1  cards
diverse roles of bacteria and archea in the environment
Extremophiles 1,
Halophiles 2,
Thermophiles 3
13  cards
Biotechnological applications of bacteria and archea
What is a prebiotic 1,
What is a probiotic 2,
Biofactory example 3
7  cards
Protists
What is a prokaryote 1,
What is a protist 2,
Protists use irl 3
7  cards
sex and death in the protists
Parthenogenoc organism 1,
What is sex 2,
What is meiosis 3
10  cards
protists - becoming large and complex
How can organisms be large 1,
What is the selection pressure to...,
Why aren t there more large unice...
7  cards
introduction to fungi
How do fungi feed 1,
What do fungi eat 2,
Plants v fungi differences 3
5  cards
chytridiomycota and their close relatives
Zoospores 1,
Monophyletic 2,
Polyphyletic 3
7  cards
Zygomycota
What is the difference between ch...,
Plasmogamy 2,
Heterokaryon 3
5  cards
basidiomycota and glomeromycota
Basidia formation proces 1,
How do stinkhorn mushrooms use in...,
Two major types of mycorrhiza 3
4  cards
Ascomycota (sac fungi)
What is an ascus 1,
Symbiosis of lichens 2,
Names of plant pathogenic ascomyc...
6  cards
Animals - lecture 1
Hierarchy of classification 1,
Phylum 2,
Class 3
14  cards
Animals - building an animal
Epithelium 1,
Tissue 2,
Organ 3
16  cards
Phyla and parazoa
What is a phylum 1,
Blastocoel 2,
Blastopore 3
8  cards
radiata phylum cnidaria and ctenophora
Placozoa 1,
Desmosomes 2,
Radial symmetry 3
13  cards
protostomes
Types of cleavage 1,
What happens to a blastopore in p...,
What happens to the blastopore in...
9  cards
protostomes 2 -> cavities and worms
The body cavity 1,
Pseudocoelomate 2,
Coelomate 3
8  cards
the lophophorates and molluscs
Describe phylum brachiopoda 1,
Coelomate animals body parts 2,
How do molluscs shred food 3
11  cards
ecdysozoa I
What is ecdysozoa 1,
Phylum nematoda characteristics 2,
Phylum onychophora characteristics 3
7  cards
ecysozoa II - phylum arthropoda
Horseshoe crabs 1,
Class arachnida characteristics 2,
Spiders characteristics 3
6  cards
insects - arthropods
What size are insects usually 1,
Why is there emphasis on insects 2,
Camera eye characteristics 3
5  cards
Life on land
What is the mandibulate mouthpart...,
What is the haustellate mouthpart...,
What s the major problem about li...
5  cards
flight, breathing an success
What is the reason for swarming 1,
How does a grasshopper transform ...,
Wings mechanisms characteristics 3
15  cards
insects life cycle and phylogeny
What is a hexapod 1,
Why don t all hexapods pupate 2,
What are imaginal disks 3
8  cards
unity and diversity
What is the origin of animals 1,
What are homeotic genes 2,
Example of homeotic genes in inse...
5  cards
deuterostomes
Two types of early embryonic clea...,
Protostome and deuterostome embry...,
What is the fate of the blastopor...
7  cards
chordata
What function did chordates devel...,
Newtons first law 2,
Newtons third law relation to ani...
22  cards
vertebrates
Vertebral column 1,
Vertebral column and notochord re...,
Structure of trunk and tail verte...
14  cards
moving in water
What is the oxygen content in wat...,
Newtons second law 2,
3 types of drag 3
19  cards
Tetrapods
Evolution of tetrapods 1,
What do fish use in water to be b...,
Which uses more energy 3
20  cards

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