Vocabulary
An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material for energy
What are decomposers?
An animal-like protist
What is a protozoan?
The relationship between two different organisms for a significant amount of their life
What is symbiosis?
The environment that fungi thrive in
What is warm and moist?
False feet used for locomotion
What are pseudopods?
Plant-like protists
What are algae?
A flea on a dog
What is parasitism?
Yeast, puffballs, mushrooms, bracket fungi, and mold
What are the main categories of fungi?
The means of reproduction which involves microscopic "seeds"
What are spores?
The whip like tail used for locomotion
What is flagella?
One organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
The body of fungus that grows underground
What is mycelium?
The process in which plants obtain energy
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms that utilize hair-like structures to move and capture food
What are ciliophorans?
What is mutualism?
The tough protein that makes up the cell walls of fungi
What is chitin?
The pigment that absorbs light to carry out the photosynthesis
What is chlorophyll?
Algae that is multicellular
What is kelp or seaweed?
Bacteria living in the stomach of a human
What is mutualism?
A special type of heterotroph that describe fungi
What is saprotrophs?