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Protist vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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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 |