Exam 15: Evolution and Diversity of Microbial Life

Scientists have fossils of the first life on Earth.

What was likely the first informational molecule of life?

Fungi that live between the cells of plant tissue without causing disease is called

Multicellular organisms generally consist of a large number of identical cells.

After a haploid spore germinates,it then completes mitosis,forming hyphae.The resulting hyphae are

Cytoplasmic extensions by which some protozoa move are

Protein was the first molecule carrying genetic information.

Diatoms and brown algae contain yellowish photosynthetic pigments.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of lichen?

Fungi and plants are similar because they both

The complex polysaccharide component of cell walls of bacteria is

DNA that is circular and apart from the chromosome in a prokaryote is a(n)

Prokaryotes lack which feature?

What did Stanley Miller's simulation of Earth's early conditions produce?

The Irish potato famine in the mid-1840s was caused by which heterotrophic protist decomposer that secreted digestive enzymes onto potatoes?

The fusion of two haploid hyphae whereby the nuclei remain separate in the cell creates a(n)________ cell.

Because archaea were first found in environments that lacked oxygen or were very hot,acidic,or salty,they were nicknamed "extremophiles."

Chlamydomonas is unicellular and photosynthetic.Chlamydomonas is which of the following?

If you were taken to the beach and asked to stand near a sample of the largest kind of algae,you would search for a piece of 

When testing a sample of cells for preferred growing conditions,you find that they are obligate for growth in high concentrations of salt.These are probably bacteria.