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chapter 3 protista
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| protozoan | an animal like protist |
| pseudopod | a false foot or tempoirary bulge of the cell membrane used for feeding and movement in some protozoan |
| contractile vacuole | the cell structer that collects extra water from the cytoplasm and then expelsit from the cell |
| CILIAq | the hairlike projections on the outside of cells that move in a wavelike mannar |
| symbiosis | a close relationship between two organisms i which at least one of thje organisms benifit |
| pigment | a chemical that produces color |
| mutualism | a type of symbiosis in which both parners benifit from one living together. |
| spore | a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism |
| alga | a plantlike protist |
| eutrophication | the buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater lakes and ponds that lead to an increase in growth of algae |
| pigment | a chemical that produces color |
| algal bloom | a rapid growth of a population of algae |
| red tide | an algal bloom that occurs in salt water |
| lichen | any complex organism of the group Lichenes, composed of a fungus in symbiotic union with an alga and having a greenish, gray, yellow, brown, or blackish thallus that grows in leaflike, crustlike, or branching forms on rocks, trees |
| eutrophication | the buildup over time of nutrients in freshwater lakes and ponds that lead to an increase in growth of algae |
| hypha | one of the many braching threadlike tubes that make up the body of the fungus |
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