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Science Ch 2
Stack #180461
Question | Answer |
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one- or many-celled eukaryotic organisms that can be plantlike, animal-like, or funguslike | protists |
chlorophyll-containing plantlike protists that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis | algae |
long, thin whiplike structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surroundings | flagellum |
one-celled animal-like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms | protozoan |
in protists, short threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane of a ciliate and enable the organism to move quickly | cilia |
temporary cytoplasmic extensions used by some protists to move about and trap food | pseudopod |
a process in which chlorophyll-containing organisms use energy from light and change carbon dioxide and water into simple sugars and oxygen gas | photosynthesis |
mass of many-celled threadlike tubes forming the body of a fungus | hyphae |
waterproof reproductive cell of a fungus that can grow into a new organism | spore |
club-shaped reproductive structure in which club fungi produce spores | basidium |
saclike spore-producing structure of sac fungi | ascus |
form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically-identical organism forms on the side of its parent | budding |
round spore case of a zygote fungus | sporangium |
organism made up of a fungus and a green alga or a cyanobacterium | lichen |
network of hyphae and plant roots that helps plants absorb water and minerals from soil | mycorrhizae |
tangled mass of threadlike hyphae; body of a fungus | mycelium |
organism that used dead organisms as a food source and recycled nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms | saprophytes |
the reproductive structure of a fungus, or mushroom | fruiting body |
species that belong in club fungi | Phylum Basidiomycota |
species that belong in sac fungi | Phylum Ascomycota |
species that belong in zygote fungi | Phylum Zygomycota |
scientific name for bread mold | rhizopus stolonifer/phylum zygomycota |