Amoeba structure used for movement and capturing food.
What is a pseudopod?
100
The process that allows plant-like protists to create their own food from energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
100
An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
100
Fungi are made up of these types of cell.
What eukaryotic cells?
100
This type of fungi is characterized by their structures called basidia. Some examples are smuts and rusts.
What are club fungi?
200
Short, hair-like structures that help some animal-like protists such as the paramecium move.
What are cilia?
200
Photosynthetic unicellular protists with silica shells.
What are diatoms?
200
An organism that feeds on another living creature, usually without killing it. Some water molds are this type of organism.
What are parasites?
200
The typical fungal body is made of these long, threadlike filaments.
What are hyphae?
200
The type of fungi that is characterized by a round, sack-like, or rock-like shape. Most fungi in this group reproduce by forming an ascus.
What are sac fungi?
300
Some protists such as Giardia lambia, use these long, whip-like structures for movement.
What are flagella?
300
Most of these single-celled protists have characteristics of both plants and animals.
What are Euglenoids?
300
Exists as a single-celled organism, but can come together and form colonies in unfavorable conditions.
What is a slime mold?
300
Organisms, such as fungi, are called this: meaning an organism that absorbs nutrients from dead or decaying organisms.
What is a saprobe?
300
This type of fungi does NOT reproduce sexually and is shapeless. Most are parasites that cause diseases in plants and animals.
What are imperfect fungi?
400
Parasitic, animal-like protists that cannot move. An example of this type of protozoan is the Plasmodium vivax, which causes malaria.
What are sporozoans or spore-forming protozoans?
400
The poisonous "red tides" that can occur in coastal areas are associated with these plant-like protists.
What are dinoflagellates?
400
Fungus-like protists release these to reproduce.
What are spores?
400
The process by which yeast resproduce asexually.
What is budding?
400
A combination of a fungus and an alga that grow intertwined.
What is a lichen?
500
General name for all animal-like protists; "little animals"
What are protozoans?
500
These plant-like protists are similar to green plants and are probably their ancestors.
What are green algae?
500
Parasitic forms of fungus-like protists that often infect farm crops. One of these fungus-like protists caused the Great Potato Famine in Ireland.
What are water molds?
500
Hyphea cells have openings in their cell walls that allow this cell structure to move freely between the cells.
What is cytoplasm?
500
Black bread mold is an example of this type of fungi. Most of the fungi in this group live in the soil and are usually deconposers, although some are parasites.