Question | Answer |
Protists | |
Characteristics | mostly unicellular, eukaryotes(nucleus) |
Chloroplasts | Capture energy from sun |
Photosynthesis | make their own food |
Multiple Fission | asexual, more than 2 offspring from one parent |
Binary Fission | asexual, 2 offspring from one parent |
Classification | by shared traits |
Mycorrhiza | relationship between a plant and fungus |
Lichen | fungus and algae |
Fungi | eukaryote, heterotroph, rigid cell walls |
Molds | shapeless fuzzy |
Sac fungi | largest group |
Protist producers | |
Examples | green algae, phytoplankton, brown algae |
Food | make their own |
Mycelium | twisted mass of hyphae |
Spores | spread easily by the wind |
Mutualism | fungus living in plant roots |
Amoeba | |
Pseudopodia | used for moving and eating |
Asexual reproduction | one parent |
Algae | |
Live | in water |
Contain chlorophyll | green pigment |
Protozoans | mobile protists |
Sporangia | spore cases |
Dinoflagellates | can move |
Euglenoids | move |
Zooflagellates | use flagella, live in water or parasites, protozoans |
Autotroph/Heterotroph | produce own food/ can not make own food, eat yeasts |
Host | organism invaded by parasite |
Decomposers | break down dead or decaying matter |
Phytoplankton | need microscope to see, make their own food, free floating |
Diatoms | glasslike shells |
Foraminiferans | snail like shells |
Cilia | tiny hairlike structures, ciliates |
Flagella | whiplike strands for movement |
Parasite | an organism that invades another |
Why not eat wild mushrooms | some are poisonous |
Amoeba | like protozoans |