What is the adaptive value of natural antibiotic production for fungi?
A) Bacteria use fungi for food.
B) Bacteria spoil the food that the fungi need for their own nutrition.
C) Bacteria are the main competitors with fungi for food.
D) Bacteria inhibit the reproduction of fungi.
C
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An organism was isolated after growing 26 days. Colonial morphologic appearance revealed heaped, wrinkled, moist, and yeastlike colonies. As the culture aged, colonies became covered with short aerial mycelium that turned from tan to brown. This organism is most likely:
a. Blastomyces dermatitidis. b. Coccidioides immitis. c. Histoplasma capsulatum. d. P. brasiliensis.
Which feature is not consistent with animals?
a. Heterotrophs b. Single celled c. Ingest food d. Unwalled cells in their bodies e. Motile during some point in their life
With the exception of ______, all animals have some tissues organized into organs.
a) sponges and insects b) amphibians c) insects d) roundworms and flatworms e) sponges and some cnidarians
If a beaver eats the bark all the way around a tree trunk (a process called "girdling"), why does the tree die?
A) Water and minerals are no longer supplied to the leaves. B) Cells of the lateral meristem can no longer divide. C) The tree cannot continue to photosynthesize. D) The tree is susceptible to insect and fungal diseases. E) The phloem is damaged, and the transport of sugars ceases.