+
Related Flashcards
Related Topics
Cards In This Set
| Front | Back |
|
Protists
|
All eukaryotes that are not green plants, fungi, or animals
|
|
Paraphyletic group
|
Respresents some, but not all of the descendants of a single common ancestor
|
|
Taxonomy
|
The branch of biology devoted to describing and naming new species and classifying groups of species
|
|
Toxoplasma
|
Cause eye and brain damage in infants and in AIDS patients
|
|
Giardia
|
Cause diarrhea due to giardiasis (beaver fever) that can last for several weeks
|
|
Trichomonas
|
Causes reproductive tract infection which can cause infertility in females
|
|
Leishmania
|
Causes skin sores or affect internal organs such as the spleen and liver
|
|
Trypanosoma gambiense and T. rhodesiense
|
Cause "African sleeping sickness": potentially fatal disease transmitted through bites from tsetse flies
|
|
Trypanosoma cruzi
|
Causes Chagas disease which causes 50,000 deaths annually, mainly in South and Central America
|
|
Entamoeba histolytica
|
Severe infections results in amoebic dysentery
|
|
Phytophthora infestans
|
Wiped out potato crops in Ireland in 1845-1847
|
|
Primary producers
|
Produce chemical energy (through photosythesis)
|
|
Plankton
|
Small organisms that live near the surface of oceans or lakes and drift along or swim short distances
|
|
Food chain
|
Describes nutritional relationships among organisms
|
|
Global carbon cycle
|
The movement of carbon atoms fron carbon dioxide molecules in the atmosphere to organisms in the soil or the ocean and then back to the atmosphere
|
