ABEKA Biology Chapter 5 Chapter Review GCA Latest Update Graded A

ABEKA Biology Chapter 5 Chapter Review GCA Latest Update Graded A taxonomy process of arranging organisms into groups based on similarities kind group of similar organisms that are all descended from a single group of originally created organisms vascular plant any of the plants that have vascular tissue; also called tracheophyte nonvascular plant any nonseed plant that does not have vascular tissue gymnosperm plant that does not produce flowers but does produce seeds conifer cone-bearing gymnosperm fern nonflowering vascular plant with spore-bearing leaves and horizontal underground stems spore tiny, one-celled reproductive structure that can grow into a distinct or independent organism under the proper conditions moss nonvascular spore plant that undergoes alternation of generations bryophyte spore-bearing nonvascular plant liverwort bryophyte that grows along the surface of the soil and often looks like tiny leaves algae member of the group containing the smallest green, chlorophyll-containing organisms plankton collective term for microorganisms that float near the surface of the water and provide food for larger organisms diatom any of a group of yellow algae characterized by rigid cell walls composed of silica dinoflagellate unicellular aquatic alga that has two unlike flagella used for locomotion cyanobacteria group of bacteria that form colonies resembling those of unicellular algae; also called blue-green algae fungus nonvascular plantlike organism that lacks chlorophyll and is heterotrophic; plural fungi club fungus group of fungus that produce spores in club-shaped basidia sac fungus group of fungus with saclike spore-producing structures shelf fungus group of shelflike club fungi that grow slowly and do not have gills; also called bracket fungus slime mold jellylike organism that oozes into its environment to engulf bacteria and other particles lichen single unit formed by a fungus and an alga living in close relationship symbiosis close relationship between two different species over a period of time, especially one in which they mutually benefit basic body structure the primary criterion by which Linnaeus classified organisms kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species the