Protist Characteristics
Short, hair-like extensions used for cell movement.
What are cilia?
Group of protists which possess flagella with fine hairs
What is stramenopila?
Chains of cells that are separated by cross walls.
What are septate hyphae?
Chains of spores found at the tips of hyphae in fungi belonging to Ascomycota.
What are conidia?
Organism which is composed of many cells working together, each of which can survive on their own.
What are colonial organisms?
What are osmotrophs?
Unicellular and colonial phagotrophs that are considered the closest living relative to animals.
What are chaonoflagellates?
A fungal organism which possesses 2 different nuclei.
What is a heterokaryotic fungi?
Major group of fungi which form arbuscular mycorrhizae.
What is Glomeromycota?
The theory which explains the presence of DNA, ribosomes and a double membrane in the mitochondria and chloroplasts.
What is endosymbiosis theory?
Organisms which are found free floating in the water column.
What are plankton?
Unicellular algae which possess perpendicular flagella and exhibit bioluminescence.
What are dinoflagellates?
A form of asexual reproduction where a single smaller daughter cell branches off of a larger parent cell.
What is budding?
Fruiting body of fungi belonging to the group Basidiomycota.
What are basidiocarps?
The symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism such an algae or cyanobacteria.
What is a lichen?
Form of protist reproduction which involves several rounds of nuclear division followed by several rounds of cytokinesis to produce many, small daughter cells from a single parent cell.
What is schizogony?
Pathogenic protists which possess a complex of organelles in one region of the cell.
What are apicomplexans?
A symbiotic relationship between the roots of plants and a fungal organism.
What are mycorrhizae?
The type of hyphae found in fungi belonging to Zygomycota?
What are coenocytic hyphae?
A woven mass of fungal hyphae.
What is a mycelium?
Animal-like protists which engulf food to break it down internally.
What are phagotrophs?
Protists which are covered in cilia and undergo conjugation.
What are ciliates?
The material found in the cell walls of fungi.
What is chitin?
The spores produced asexually by fungal organisms belonging to the group Zygomycota.
What are sporangiophores?
A symbiotic relationship characterized by both organisms in the relationship benefiting.
What is mutualism?