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Protist and Fungi
protist and fungi vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chlorophyll-containing, plaintlike protists that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis. | Algae |
| saclike,spore-producing structure of sac fungi. | Ascus |
| club-shaped, reproductive structure in which club fungi produce spores. | Basidium |
| form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically-identical organism forms on the side of its parent. | Budding |
| in protists, short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane of a ciliate and enable the organism to move quickly. | Cilia |
| long, think whiplike structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surroundings. | Flagellum |
| mass of many-celled, threadlike tubes forming the body of a fungus. | Hyphae |
| network of hyphae and plant roots that helps plants absorb water and minerals from soil. | Mycorrhizae |
| one- or many-celled eukaryotic organism that can be plantlike, animal-like, or fungus like | Protist |
| one-celled, animal-like protist that can live in waqter, soil, and living and dead organisms. | Protozoan |
| temporary cytoplasmic extensions used by some protists to move about and trap food | Pseudopods |
| organism that uses dead organisms as a food source and helps recycle nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms | Saprophyte |
| round spore case of a zygote fungus. | Sporangium |
| waterproof reproductive cell of a fungus that can grow into a new organism; in plants, haploid cells produced in the gametophyte stage that can divide by mitosis to form plant structures or an entire new plant or can develop into sex cells. | Spore |