The Protozoans
This means "first animals " and organisms in this group are considered the most animal-like.
What is a protozoan?
A funguslike protist that reproduces both asexually and sexually through cells called.
What is a water mold?
One of the slender filaments that composes the mycelium of a fungus.
What are hyphae?
The ability to change form in reaction to a different environment.
What is dimorphism?
A modified type of amoeboid movement seen in euglena.
What is euglenoid movement?
This collects and eliminates water, regulating homeostasis between the amoeba and its environment.
What is a contractile vacuole?
These are found living in cool, moist environments that are rich in organic matter.
What are slime molds?
Unicellular predominantly saprophytic fungi found in soil are water.
What are yeasts?
Most green algae are found here
What is The Mexico Coast?
A bulge an amoeba makes when it moves.
What is a pseudopod?
Special cells that produce flagellated zoospores develop into new organisms.
What are sporangia?
These are thick-walled structures.
What are zygosporangia?
The yellow, orange, and red fat-soluble pigments found in the plastids of some plant cells.
What are carotenoids?
Funnel-shaped indentation in the body of paramecium.
What is an oral groove?
The spore-producing reproductive structure of a slime mold.
What is a fruiting body?
Flat structures in mushrooms that radiate outward from the stipe.
What are gills?
When euglanes prople themselves with a wormlike motion.
What is euglenoid movement?
Microscopic unicellular organisms that are usually motile.
What are protozoans?
An acellular slime mold of the phylum Myxomycota.
What is a plasmodial slime mold?
Hyphae of parasitic fungi that perforate a host's cells and obtain nutrition directly from the cytoplasm.
What are rhizoids?
A gelatonous coating found on many brown algae. Can serve as a thickener in icecream and other foods.
What is algin?