CK12 Life Science
transduction Transfer of DNA between two bacteria with the aid of a bacteriaphage. transformation Changing phenotypes due to the ...
Introduction For many years, archaea were classified as bacteria. However, when modern techniques allowed scientists to compare ...
Figure 8.10: Archaea shapes can vary widely, but some are bacilli, or rod-shaped. ( 4 ) ...
also reproduce asexually through budding and fragmentation, where pieces of the cell break off and form a new cell, also produci ...
Figure 8.12: Thermophiles can thrive in hot springs and geysers, such as this one, the Excelsior Geyser in the Midway Geyser Bas ...
therefore contributes to global warming (see theEnvironmental Problemschapter). There- fore, the rate of methane released in swa ...
How do archaea obtain energy? How do archaea reproduce? Where do halophiles live? Where do thermophiles live? How did methanoge ...
(2) NIAID, NIH.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EscherichiaColi_NIAID.jpg. Public Domain. (3) CDC. http://commons.wikimedia.org ...
Chapter 9 Protists and Fungi 9.1 Lesson 9.1: Protists. Lesson Objectives Explain why protists cannot be classified as plants, a ...
What are Protists? These unique and varied organisms demonstrate such unbelievable differences that they are sometimes called th ...
Figure 9.1: Protists come in many different shapes. ( 11 ) Figure 9.2: This slime mold is a protist. Slime molds had previously ...
When a protist is ready to eat, it will wrap its cell wall and cell membrane around its prey, which is usually bacteria. In doin ...
A flagellum is a cellular structure and not an organelle. Prokaryotic cells may also have flagella. Different Kinds of Animal-li ...
Table 9.1: (continued) Phylum Description Number (approxi- mate) Example Euglenophyta euglenoids 1,000 Euglena Figure 9.4: Red a ...
Table 9.2:Fungus-like Protists Protist Source of Carbon Environment Characteristics omycetes: water molds (Figure9.6) decompose ...
Figure 9.5: An example of a slime mold. ( 6 ) Figure 9.6: An aquatic insect nymph attacked by water mold. ( 2 ) ...
Importance of Protists Earth would be uninhabitable if it were not for the 80 different groups of organisms called protists. Pro ...
Marguilis, L., Corliss, J.O., Melkonian, M.,and Chapman, D.J. (Editors) 1990. Hand- book of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett, Bo ...
Points to Consider Fungi comprise one of the eukaryotic kingdoms. Think about what might distinguish a fungi-like protist from ...
Figure 9.7: These many different kinds of organisms demonstrate the huge diversity within the kingdom Fungi. ( 4 ) of themselves ...
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