Categories of Protists
Specific Protist Names
Types of Fungi
Characteristics of Fungi
Miscellaneous
100
A protist that is a decomposer
What is a fungus-like protist?
100
A fungus-like protist that can look like candy, scrambled eggs, or many other things
What is a slime mold?
100
Button mushrooms are of this type
What is a club fungi?
100
How a fungus reproduces
What is with spores?
100
The reason why you should never eat wild mushrooms that have not yet been identified by an expert
What is because they might be poisonous?
200
A protist that can photosynthesize
What is a plant-like protist?
200
The protist responsible for the potato famine in Ireland
What is a water mold?
200
Fungi that can only reproduce asexually
What is imperfect fungi?
200
A sac fungus that can be used to make bread rise
What is yeast?
200
The study of fungi
What is mycology?
300
An organism that can make its own energy
What is a producer?
300
A protist that can photosynthesize and be a consumer
What is euglena?
300
Bread mold is a fungus of this type
What is threadlike (or sporangia)?
300
Twisted mass of fungal hyphae that have grown together; frequently found underground or in another organism
What is the mycelium?
300
Tiny hairlike structures that help a protist move
What are cillia?
400
An organism that feeds on another living creature, aiding itself but harming the other organism
What is a parasite?
400
A protist that can cause you to become ill; found in mountain streams and lakes
What is giradia lamblia?
400
Symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algae
What is a lichen?
400
An old folk name for the circle of mushrooms that sometimes forms
What is a fairy ring?
400
A deadly disease caused by the protist plasmodium vivax
What is malaria?
500
An animal-like protist that is a single-celled consumer
What is a protozoan?
500
A complex ciliate with many cell structures that reproduces by conjugation
What is paramecium?
500
A shapeless, fuzzy fungi
What is a mold?
500
An antiobiotic medicine made from an imperfect fungi
What is penicillin?
500
Protists with a silica shell that are responsible for the White Cliffs of Dover in England
What are foraminiferans?
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