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Protist vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cilia | tiny thread-like hairs used for movement |
| Flagellum | Whip-like structures used for movement |
| Hyphae | multicellular thread-like tubes |
| Protist | a unicellular and multicellular organism |
| Protozoan | an animal-like protist |
| Psuedopod | also known as a "false foot" used for movement |
| Spore | a waterproof reproductive cell that can grow into a new organism |
| Binary Fission | type of asexual reproduction that forms two identical daughter cells |
| Conjugation | form of sexual reproduction |
| Contractile vacuoles | cavity in the cytoplasm of some protists that collects water and discharges it from the cell |
| Chitin | complex carbohydrate that makes up the cell wall of fungi |
| Saprobe | organism that obtain food from decaying organisms |
| Sarcodina | move using pseudopodia |
| Ciliphora | move using cilia |
| Zoomastigina | move using whip like flagella |
| Hyphae | tiny filament that make up the body of a fungus |
| Mycology | study of fungus |
| Fungicide | chemicals used to kill fungus |
| Spore | haploid reproductive cell |