Question | Answer |
A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside living cell. | Virus |
The organism that a parasite or virus lives in or on | Host |
The organism that benifits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction | Parasite |
A virus the injects bacteria | Bacteriophage |
A substance used in a vaccination that consists of weakend or killed pathogentist that can trigger the immune system into action | Vaccine |
Single celled organisms that lack a nucleus: prokaryotes. | Bacteria |
A long, whiplike structure that helps a cell to move | Flagellum |
A form of asexual reproduction in which one cell divides to form two identites | Binary Fission |
A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent | Asexual Reproduction |
A reproductive process that involves two parents that combines their genetic material to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents | Sexual Reproduction |
The process in which a unicellular organism transfers some of its genetic material to another unicellular organism. | Conjugation |
a small, round, thick-walled, resting cell that forms inside a bacteria cell. | Endospore |
a process of heating food to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria wihtout changing the taste of the food. | Pasteurization |
an organism that breaks down chemicals from waste and dead organisms, and returns important materials to the soil and water. | Decomposer |
a eukaryotic organism that cannot be classified as a animal, plant, or fungus. | Protist |
an animal-like protist. | Protozoan |
a "false foot" or temperary buldge of cytoplasm used for feeding and movment in some protozones. | Pseudopod |
The cell structure that collects extra water from the cytoplasm and then expells it from the cell | Contractile vacoule |
The hairlike projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike manner | Cilia |
a close relationship between two organisms of different species that benifits from one of the organisms | Symbiosis |
a close relationship between organisms of two species in which both organisms benifit | Mutialism |
plantlike protist | Algae |
a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism | Spore |
a eukaryotic organism that has cell walls, uses spores to reproduce, and is a heterotroph that feeds by asorbing it's food | Fungi |
The branching, threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of multicellular fungi | Hypae |
A reproductive structure of a fungis that contains many hypae and produces spores | Fruiting Body |
a form of asexual reproduction of yeast in which a new cell grows out of the body of a parent | Budding |
the combination of a fungus and either an allgae autorotrophic bacterium that live together in a mutualistic relationship | Lichen |