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Simple Living Things Unit Test
Review Sheet
Chapter 19 – Bacteria and Viruses
• What is a prokaryote? What kingdoms of life are prokaryotes?
• Eubacteria vs. Archaebacteria
• Be able to identify bacteria shapes
o Bacilli
o Cocci
o Spirilla
• How are bacteria classified by their cell wall?
• Heterotrophs –
• Photoheterotrophs –
• Photoautotrophs –
• Chemoautotrophs –

2. • Obligate aerobes –
• Obligate anerobes –
• Facultative anerobes –
• How do bacteria reproduce asexually
• What is conjugation?
• What are three ways that bacteria are important?
• How are bacteria important in nitrogen fixation?
• What are viruses, what are they made out of?
• Why are viruses specific to the hosts that they infect?
• What is a lytic infection, what is a lysogenic infection?
• Why are viruses parasites?

3. • Are viruses alive? Why?
• What is a pathogen?
• What is a vaccine, how does it work?
• What is an antibiotic?
• What are some ways that the growth of bacteria can be controlled?
• What are viroids and prions?
Chapter 20 – Protists
• What are protists?
• What is the endosymbiotic theory?
• Know the ways of locomotion of animal like protists
o Flagellates
o Ciliates
o Sarcodines
o Sporozoans

4. • What are the characteristics of plant-like protists and their importance to ecology
• What is an algae bloom?
• What are the characteristics of fungus-like protists?
Chapter 21 – Fungi
• What are the characteristics of fungi?
o Mode of nutrition –
o Cell wall structure –
• Hyphae –
• Mycelium –
• Fruiting body –
• How do fungi reproduce asexually?
• Why are fungi important to ecology?
• What is a saprobe?
• What two species are involved in a symbiotic relationship in lichens? What does
each member contribute to the relationship?
• What two species are involved in a symbiotic relationship in mycorrhizae? What
does each member contribute to the relationship?