Exam 15: Evolution and Diversity of Microbial Life

Antibiotics usually are not dangerous to humans when treating bacterial infections because most antibiotics exploit structures and functions in bacteria that are not present in host cells.

Euglena and dinoflagellates have chloroplasts and flagella.This means they have what characteristic(s)?

The first life on Earth was

The endosymbiont theory states that eukaryotic cells work together to form a multicellular organism.

Chloroplasts arose by endosymbiosis of a(an)

If you sample prokaryotes from a kitchen faucet,there are likely to be bacteria,not archaea.

Protists can be heterotrophs.

The Russian chemist Oparin suggested that for organic molecules to form on Earth,the atmosphere was probably rich in all of these except 

Which of the following is true of prokaryotes?

Most bacteria inside and on the human body cause disease.

Cooperation between or among cells could have been a key step in the evolution of multicellularity.

A lichen is made up of which two types of organisms?

The domain (domains)that contain prokaryotes is (are)

In prokayotes,the structure that assembles proteins by using information in RNA a(an)

The main storage carbohydrate in fungi is

A prokaryote that occupies a habitat consisting of a low pH is a(n)

RNA was the first molecule carrying genetic information.

Molecular evidence places fungi closer to plants than animals.

Why do scientists hypothesize that RNA was the first form of genetic material?

Microscopic reproductive cells produced by most fungi are