bio quiz

All fungi are

heterotrophs

Which of the following accurately describes mycorrhizae?

are used in agriculture and forestry to promote growth of plants

Instead of ingesting their food, fungi absorb their nutrients from outside their bodies. Which of the following are NOT fungal structures that aid this nutritional mode?

Flagellated cells that are motile

Protists are

eukaryotes

One primary difference between protists and prokaryotes is that prokaryotes may cause human disease; there are no known pathogenic protists

false

All symbiosis involved commensalism

false

Which of the following is NOT an example of mutualism?

A fungus causes athlete's foot

In the TED talk titled "The Secret, Social Lives of Bacteria," Bonnie Bassler discusses a symbiotic relationship between bacteria and a squid upon which the bacteria live. How do the bacteria hide the squid's silhouette?

emitting light

In prokaryotes, the cell wall is also called a capsule.

false

Which of the following does NOT lead to increased genetic variation in bacteria?

meiosis

From the standpoints of evolution and taxonomy,

eukaryotes are thought to have evolved from prokaryotes by endosymbiosis.