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protist & fungi card
14 cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hyphae | a mass of many celled thread like tubes |
| saprophytes | organisms that obtain food by absorbing dead or decaying tissues of other organisms |
| spore | a waterproof reproductive cell that can grow into a new organism |
| basidium | a club shaped spore |
| ascus | a little saclike spore |
| budding | a form of asexual reproduction in which a new organism forms on the side of a parent organism |
| sporangium | a round spore case |
| lichen | an organism that is made of a fungus and either a green alga or a cynobacterium |
| mycorrhizae | a network of hyphae and roots |
| algae | plantlike protist |
| flagellum | a long, thin, whiplike structure used for movement |
| cilia | short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane |
| protist | a one- or many celled organism that lives in moist or wet surroundings |
| protozoan | one-celled, animal-like protists |
| pseudopod | temporary extentions of the organisms cytoplasm(it meens "false foot") |