Download a. Lesson 1 – Viruses

1. Study pages 36-77.
2. Study vocabulary flashcards (using quizlet – link on 6th grade website).
a. Lesson 1 – Viruses
 What are the characteristics of viruses?
o Are they living? Are they cells?
o What shapes are viruses?
o How are viruses named?
o How/where do viruses multiply?
o Know the basic structure of viruses.
 How do viruses interact with the living world?
o Name some examples of diseases/illnesses caused by viruses.
o How can viruses be useful?
o Be able to explain how vaccines work.
b. Lesson 2 – Bacteria
 What are bacteria?
o Describe the cell structure of bacteria.
o Be able to define and label the following on a diagram of a bacterium:
cytoplasm
ribosomes
flagellum
cell wall
cell membrane
o What shapes do bacteria come in?
 How do bacteria get food, get energy, and reproduce?
o How do bacteria get food?
o How do bacteria reproduce?
 Describe asexual reproduction/binary fission.
 Describe sexual reproduction/conjugation.
 Describe what an endospore is.
 What is the role of bacteria in nature?
o Describe the following roles of bacteria:
 Oxygen production
 Food production
 Health and medicine
 Environmental cleanup
 Environmental recycling
c. Lesson 3 – Protists
 What are the characteristics of animal-like protists?
o What’s another name for animal-like protists?
o Be able to describe the four groups of protozoans:
 Sarcodines - Protozoans with pseudopods
Describe how they move.
Explain a contractile vacuole.
Give an example of a sarcodine.
 Flagellates - Protozoans with flagella
Explain how they move.
Give an example of a flagellate.
 Ciliates - Protozoans with cilia
How do they move?
Give an example of a ciliate.
 Protozoans that are parasites
Describe two examples.
 What are the characteristics of plant-like protists?
o What are these commonly called?
o Are plant-like protists unicellular or multicellular?
o What are some “uses” of plant-like protists?
 What are the characteristics of fungi-like protists?
o How do fungi-like protists reproduce?
o Describe slime-molds.
o What are water molds and downy mildews?
d. Lesson 4 – Fungi
 What are the characteristics of fungi?
o Describe their cell structure.
o Know what hyphae are and what they do.
o How do fungi obtain food?
o How do fungi reproduce?
 Asexual reproduction (budding)
 Sexual reproduction
o How are fungi classified?
 What is the role of fungi in nature?
o Be able to describe/give an example of each:
 Environmental recycling
 Food and fungi
 Disease-fighting fungi
 Disease-causing fungi
 Fungus-plant root associations
 Lichens
SUMMARY OF ORGANISMS
Organism
Prokaryote/
eukaryote
Cell Structure
Method of
obtaining Food
Not a cell/non-living
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Reproduction
bacteria
prokaryote
unicellular
autotrophs &
heterotrophs
Must be inside of another
cell to reproduce
asexual – binary fission
sexual - conjugation
animal-like protists
(protozoans)
eukaryote
unicellular
heterotrophs
asexual & sexual
plant-like protists
(algae)
eukaryote
unicellular (euglenoids,
dinoflagellates, diatoms)
or multicellular
(red/brown algae)
autotrophs
asexual & sexual
fungi-like protists
*can move at some
point in their life
eukaryote
unicellular or multicellular
heterotrophs
use spores to reproduce
Fungi
Do not move
eukaryote
Unicellular(yeasts) or
multicellular
heterotrophs
usually using spores
asexual (budding)
& sexual (2 hyphaes join)
virus
Neither/non-living