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 woven mass of fungal hyphae.
What is a mycelium?
Fruiting body of fungi belonging to the group Basidiomycota.
What are basidiocarps?
Unicellular fungi that belong to Ascomycota and are important in food production and research
What are yeast?
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?
The symbiotic relationship between a fungal organism and the roots of plants
What is mycorrhizae?
The type of hyphae found in fungi belonging to Zygomycota?
What are coenocytic hyphae?
A symbiotic relationship between a fungi and a unicellular photosynthetic organism such as algae or cyanobacteria
What is a lichen?
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?
The spores that form in chains at the tips of hyphae as a means of asexual reproduction in Ascomycota
What are conidia?