Unit 1
These single-celled organisms are the simplest, lacking organelles.
What are bacteria?
These protists are plant-like in that they are able to use the energy in sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
What are algae?
This opening is how paramecium ingest their food.
What is a gullet?
These organisms cannot move from place to place like animals do, but they are not plants either because they cannot make their own food.
What are fungi?
Bacteria can be found in these three shapes.
What are rods, spirals, or spheres?
These organisms are made up of more than 60,000 species, some are single-celled, some are multi-celled, but all cells contain organelles.
What are protists?
This term refers to the movement of water through a cell membrane.
What is osmosis?
These are thin, tube-like threads produced by a fungi.
What are hyphae?
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
This type of protozoan moves by using it's hairlike cilia.
What are Paramecia/What is Paramecium?
This process refers to reproduction where one parent cell divides into two cells.
What is asexual reproduction?
Club fungi, such as mushrooms, grow from these underground mass of hyphae.
What is a mycelium?
This is a poison produced by bacteria or other organisms.
What is a toxin?
These animal-like protists have a name meaning "first animals."
What are Protozoans?
This structure found in protists allows them to remove water that is not needed.
What are contractile vacuoles?
This type of fungi digests carbohydrates to produce carbon dioxide, when released in bread dough it helps the bread to rise.
What is yeast?
This bacterial disease is caused by incorrectly preserved food.
What is botulism?
An amoeba uses these to move and capture food.
What are pseudopods?
This structure on many protists allows them to sense changes in the brightness of light.
What are eyespots?
The yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae is used by scientists to develop a vaccine for this viral disease.
What is Hepatitis B?