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Mushrooms, bread molds, and yeasts are classified together in the fungi kingdom. Specific characteristics are used to classify these organisms. Which of the following is a characteristic used to classify these organisms as fungi?

• They are parasites.

• They are unicellular

• They are prokaryotes.

• They are heterotrophs.

Nutrition that consists of obtaining nutrients from other living being

• Autotrophic

• Photosynthesis

• Interaction

• Heterotrophic

Kingdom with the following characteristics: eukaryotic cells, with tissues and autotrophic

• Archaebacteria

• Fungi

• Bacteria

• Plant

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An organism's scientific name includes its...

• Family & Genus

• Kingdom & Family

• Genus & Species

• Class & Genus

Members of this kingdom are multicellular and heterotrophic, and most can move:

• Protista

• Animalia

• Plantae

• Fungi

A biologist discovers a new organism. What helps the biologist classify the new organism into a specific group?

• how long the organism lives

• where the organism lives

• common traits with other organisms

• how recently the organism was discovered

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Cattle egrets forage (feed) in fields among cattle. The egret gets easy access to flying insects stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle don't care if they are there or not.

• mutualism

• commensalism

• competition

• parasitism

A tapeworm lives in the intestine of a cat absorbing nutrients through its skin. A tapeworm and a cat have this type of relationship.

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• competition

What type of symbiosis?  Hummingbirds feed on nectar from flowers.  The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds as they move from flower to flower.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• predation

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Red-billed oxpeckers are birds that often feed on parasites that infest impala.  This is an example of _______.

• commensalism

• mutualism

• neutralism

• competition

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