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Chapter 2 vocab
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| Definition | Word |
|---|---|
| One-or many celled eukaryotic organisms that can be plantlike, animal0like, or funguslike | Protists |
| Chlorophyll containing, planylike protists that produce oxygen as a resuly of photosynthesis | Algae |
| long, thin whiplike structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surrondings | Flagellum |
| in protists, short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane of a ciliate and enable it to move quickly | Cilia |
| temporary cytoplasmic extensions used by some protists to move about to trap food | Pseudopod |
| process by which plants and many other producers use light energy to produce a simple sugar from carbon diocide and water and give off oxygen | Photosynthesis |
| mass of manycelled, threadlike tube forming the body of a fungus | Hyphae |
| a water proof reproductive cell of a fungus that can grow into a new organism; in plants, haploid cells produce in the gametophyte stage that can divide by mitosis to form plant structures or an entire new plant | 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 algae or a cyanobacteria | Lichen |
| network of hyphae and plant roots that helps plants obsorb water and minerals from soil | Mycorrhizae |
| tangled mass of threadlike hyphae | Mycelium |
| organism that uses dead orhanisms as a food source and helps recycle nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms | Saprphytes |
| mushroom | Fruiting Body |