IMPORTANT
TERMS:
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Antibiotics:
Organic secretions produced by micro-organism which are antagonistic to other
micro-organisms.
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Ascocarp:
The fruiting body formed in some members of ascomycetes.
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Basidiocarp:
The fruiting body formed in some members of basidiomycetes.
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Chemotrophs:
The organisms which prepare organic food with the help of energy obtained by
conducting some chemical reaction.
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Cladistics:
Method
of classifying organisms employing genealogies alone in inferring their
phylogenetic relationship.
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Coenocytic:
A multinucleate structure having no partition walls between the nuclei.
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Diatomaceous
Earth: Large deposits of silica on the ocean floor formed
as a result of deposition of silicious frustiles of diatoms.
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Holophytic(
Absorptive): The mode of nutrition in which
organisms obtain food in liquid form through their general body surfaces.
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Holozoic
(Ingestive): The mode of nutrition in which
organisms intake solid food materials.
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Karyotaxonomy:
Taxonomy based on interrelationship developed on the basis of characteristics
of nucleus and chromosomes.
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Numerical
Taxonomy: The numerical evaluation of similarities between
groups of organisms and the ordering of these groups into higher ranking taxa
on the basis of these similarities.
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Phenetics
(Adansonian taxonomy): A branch of numerical taxonomy in
which the organisms are grouped into taxa on the basis of estimates of overall
similarities.
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Photoautotrophs:
The
organisms which prepare their own food from inorganic raw materials (CO2
and water) with the help of chlorophyll utilizing solar energy.
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Phylogenetics:
A biological classification concerned with reconstruction of evolutionary
history and the history of speciation.
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Plasmodium:
A multinucleate mass of protoplasm of slime moulds which creep like Amoeba.
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Plasmodium:
A
parasite protozoan, which causes malaria in human beings.
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