Protists
Organisms that are NOT plants, animals, bacteria or fungi.
What is protists?
Used by fungi reproduce both asexually and sexually.
What are spores?
The whip-like tail found in some protozoa
What are flagellum?
Thread-like strands which interconnect and bunch up into a mycelium, or the body of the fungus
What is hyphae?
Process used by most autotrophs or producers to make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
Type of cell found in all protists
What is eukayotic?
The main difference between plants and fungi
Small hair-like structures that help some protozoa move
What is cilia?
Type of fungus used to create the first antibiotics
Organim like fungi that obtain energy or nutrition from dead or decaying organic matter
What is a decomposer?
Gas in the atmosphere that is mostly produced by protists
What is oxygen?
Use by fungi to digestive their food.
What is enzymes?
A bulge of cytoplasm that some protozoa and fungi-like protists use to move and/or engulf food.
What is a psuedopod?
Single celled fungus used to make fermented food and drink as well as breads
What is yeast?
Organisms that obtain their nutrition from living on or in another organism or host
What are parasites?
Type of environment where most protists are found
What is aquatic?
Two reasons why fungi are not considered animals.
What are cell walls and digestion is outside the body?
Type of organism that includes algae (plant-like protists)
What is autotroph or producer?
Structures that fungi use to release spores during asexual reproduction
What is sporangia?
A close long term relationship between two species
What is symbiosis?
The three groups of protists
What is a protozoa (animal-like), algae (plant-like), and fungi-like?
Component of fungi cell walls that is not found in plant cell walls. Interestingly this is also found in other organisms (exoskeleton, radula, cutilcle).
What is chitin?
Type of organism that includes protozoa (animal-like protists) and fungi-like protists.
What is heterotroph or consumer/decomposer?
Structures that fungi use to release spores in sexual reproduction
What is the fruiting body?
Process used by protozoa (animal-like) protists to engulf and consumer there food
What is endocytosis?