The Cell
Structures too small to be easily seen with the naked eye
What is microscopic?
The term which refers to the microorganisms that live near the surface of the water and provide food for larger organisms
What is plankton?
Organisms that obtain their nourishment from dead organisms
What is saprophytes?
The flagellate that has plantlike characteristics
What is euglena?
Cork cells were first seen by this man
Robert Hooke
A jellylike liquid that is the largest portion of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
The smallest of the plants that contain chlorophyll
What is algae?
Parasitic fungi that produce blisters containing black spores and often infect grains
What are smuts?
The animal-like organisms made of a single cell
What is protozoa?
A scientist who studies fungi
What is a mycologist?
The "control center" of the cell
What is nucleus?
The group of algae that diatoms belong to
What is yellow algae?
The most common mold found on bread
What is Rhizopus stolonifera?
A space for storing and digesting food within the amoeba
What is food vacuole?
The first person to observe protozoa and make written records of his observations
Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
According to the cell theory, cells come from this
What are preexisting cells?
The group of algae which includes both volvox and spirogyra
What is green algae?
A colorless organism that eats foods containing sugar
What is yeast?
Meaning "false feet"
What are pseudopods?
Was able to observe parasites growing in the stomach of an Anopheles mosquito
Who is Sir Ronald Ross?
The cell contains these "little organs"
What are organelles?
The group of which brown algae which algin is produced
What is kelp?
An organism that must obtain its food from a source other that itself
What is heterotroph?
The "mouth cavity" of a paramecium which is a funnel-like depression that runs along one side of its body
What is the oral groove?
The study of organisms that are too small to see without a microscope
What is microbiology?
The units through which characteristics are passed from parents to offspring
What are genes?
Disintegrated shells of diatoms use to manufacture toothpaste, insulation, and filters
What is diatomaceous earth?
Club-shaped spores produced by all club fungi
What is basidia?
Protozoa that move by means of hairlike projections
What are ciliates?
Scientist who studies living things
What is a biologists?