Module One
Across
- 4. occurs when two species hybridize prior to a chromosome-doubling event
- 7. flow occurs between populations that are in contact
- 10. a complex bacterial community compromising different species; plague on teeth
- 11. named after a groove on one side of the cell body in some forms; contains three major monophyletic clades
- 13. used in classical bacterial genetics for a variety of purposes
- 15. distinctive entities that are phenotypically different, utilize different parts of the habitats and behave differently.
- 20. a lipid with a polysaccharide molecule attached; found in the outer membrane layer of gram-negative bacteria
- 22. Extinction a relatively sudden, sharp decline in the number of species
- 24. stage in the life cycle of myxomycetes
- 25. staining technique that divides bacteria into gram-negative or gram-positive based on retention of a violet dye. Differences in staining are due to cell wall construction.
- 27. does not include the most recent common ancestor of all members of the group.
- 28. involves mitosis, but the process often differs from the mitosis in multicellular animals
- 29. a shared character state that has not been inherited from a common ancestor exhibiting that character state
- 34. reconstruction and study of evolutionary relationships
- 37. the primary type of light absorbing pigment in photosynthesis
- 38. used in cladistics to refer to a group used to polarize characters that is distantly related to groups under study
Down
- 1. the evolutionary history of an organism, including which species are closely related and in what order related species evolved; often represented in the form of an evolutionary tree
- 2. temporary union of two unicellular organisms, during which genetic material is transferred from one cell to the other
- 3. condition in which one or more entire sets of chromosomes are added to the diploid genome
- 5. the process of producing offspring of fertilization
- 6. the protein composing bacterial flagella, which allow a cell to move through an aqueous environment
- 8. the concept that defines species on the basis of their phylogenetic relationships.
- 9. Displacement a process in which natural selection favors individuals in a species that use resources not used by other species.
- 12. fossils of microscopic organisms thought to represent the earliest forms of life
- 14. chemical substance released by one organism that influences the behavior or physiological processes of another organism of the same species.
- 16. the outermost protein covering a virus
- 17. when a daughter cell is considerably smaller than it’s parent and then grows to its adult size; a type of cell division
- 18. members of the phylum chrysophyta, are photosynthetic, unicellular organisms with unique double shells made of Olga pine silica, which are often strikingly marked.
- 19. Radiation the evolution of several divergent forms from a primitive and unspecialized ancestor
- 21. a taxonomic technique used for creating hierarchies of organisms that represent true phylogenetic relationships and descent
- 23. groups of distinctive individuals
- 26. a taxonomic group composed of an ancestor and all it’s descendants
- 28. a polyploid organism that contains a duplicated genome of the same species; may result from a meiotic error
- 30. acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- 31. a single flagellum
- 32. pore studded shells
- 33. includes the most recent common ancestor of the group, but not all it’s descendants
- 35. the molecular machine that carries out protein synthesis
- 36. extracellular matrix
- 39. a taxonomic group that ranks below a family and above a species