Vocabulary
Characteristics of Protists
Kinds of Protists
Characteristics of Fungi
Kinds of Fungi
100
organisms that cannot make their own food
What are heterotrophs?
100
Most protists are made of this many cells.
What is one?
100
Protists that make their own food.
What is a producer or algae?
100
heterotrophs with rigid cell walls and no chlorphyll
What is fungi?
100
a fungus that looks like wool or cotton
What is mold?
200
small reproductive cell that is protected by a thick cell wall
What is a spore?
200
This term means that protists' cells have a nucleus.
What is eukaryotic?
200
This is what mobile protists are sometimes called.
What are protozoans?
200
spore cases on threadlike fungi
What is sporangia?
200
group of fungi to which mushrooms belong
What is club fungi?
300
a combination of a fungus and an alga that grow together
What is a lichen?
300
The main way that protists are grouped.
What is by shared traits/characteristics?
300
a protist that gets its nutrients from another protist
What is a parasite?
300
the place where fungi must live
What is on or near their food source?
300
largest group of fungi
What is sac fungi?
400
threadlike fungal filaments
What are hyphae?
400
The part of a protist that captures energy from the sun.
What is a chloroplast?
400
free-floating single-celled algae
What is phytoplankton?
400
This is how fungi get their energy.
What is digestive juices that break down the material.
400
this type of fungi includes all the kinds that don't fit into any other group
What is imperfect fungi?
500
a twisted mass formed when hyphae grow together
What is mycelium?
500
How producer protists make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
500
the number of parents in asexual reproduction
What is one?
500
a type of asexual reproduction used by yeasts
What is budding?
500
a fungus used to make an anitbiotic
What is Penicillium?
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