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vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| classification | The process of grouping things based on their similarities |
| binomial nomenclature | The system for naming organisms in which each organism in which each organism is given a unique, two part scientific name |
| prokaryote | An organism whose cells lack a nucleus and some other cell structures |
| eukaryote | An organisms whose cells contain nuclei |
| dichonomous key | a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world |
| Archaea bacteria | microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization |
| virus | A, tiny nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell |
| host | the organism that a parasite or virus lives in or on |
| bacteria | The organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction |
| flagellum | a long, whip like structure that helps the organism move |
| binary fission | a form of asexual reproduction in which one cell divides two identical cells |
| conjugation | the process in which a unicellular organism transfers some of its genatic material to another unicellular organism. |
| endospore | a small, rounded, thick walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell. |
| decomposer | an organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms, and returns important materials tp the soil and wataer |
| protist | a eukaryote organism that connot be classified as a plant, animal, or fugni |
| protozoan | an animal like protist |
| pseudopod | a "false foot" |
| cilia | the hairlike projectiions on the outside of the cells that move in a wave like manner |
| algae | plant like protists |
| spore | a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism |
| fungi | an eukaryote organism that has cell walls, uses spores to reproduce, and is a heterotroph that feeds by absorbing its food |
| hyphae | the branching, threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of multicellular fungi. |
| fruiting body | is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are born |
| budding | a from of asexual reproduction of yeast in which a new cell grows out of the body of a parent |
| lichen | the combinationof fungus and either an alga or an autortophic bacterium that live together in a mutulistic relationship |
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