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Question 1
The majority of known fungi belong to this phylum that includes yeasts used in baking and brewing as well as
truffles and morals.
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Basidiomycota
Ascomycota
Deuteromycota
Glomeromycota
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Question 2
How can commensal bacteria affect human weight?
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fermentation, produce wastes, and photosynthesis
affect food choices, absorption, and activity levels
respiration, competition, and transformation
antibiotics, probiotics, and competitive exclusion
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Question 3
Match each flower to its likely pollinator.
__4__ Gayfeather - showy pink flower, highly scented, little pollen, and a thin nectary 1. wind
__1__ Black walnut – a small green flower, lacking sepals or petals, but with a large stigma 2. fly
__3__ Firecracker Bush – an unscented, tubular red flower with a large amount of nectar 3. hummingbird
__5__ Saguaro cactus – a large, open white flower with a large amount of nectar that opens at night 4. butterfly
__2__ Carrion flower – a flower with mottled stripes and a putrescent "rotting-meat" smell 5. bat
Question 4
What was the major event that marks the Ordovician period more than 500 million years ago?
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appearance of green algae in the fossil record
, colonization of land by ancestors of modern land plants
the evolution of flowering plants
appearance of the first gymnosperms
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Question 5
The supergroup that includes the animal-like choanoflagellates, which likely share a common ancestor with all
animals is ________.
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Archaeplastida
Opisthokonta
Rhizaria
Amoebozoa
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Question 6
One feature of eudicots is the roots, which, unlike most monocots, has ________.
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branching adventitious roots
a main tap root
no apical meristem
no root cap
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Learning Objective: Discuss the two main groups of flowering plants
Question 7
Approximately how long was it between the first distinct seed plants appearing during the Mississippian period
and the first gymnosperms appearing in the Pennsylvanian period?
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3 billion years
3 million years