Protist's Vocabulary
These are large, multicellular marine algae.
What are seaweeds?
This is an interwoven mat of hyphae that functions as a feeding structure of a fungus.
Mycelium
This group of animal-like protists captures its food using pseudopods.
What are Sarcodines?
What part of the fungus is a mushroom?
fruiting body
This group of protozoans moves using tiny hair-like structures that beat rhythmically.
Ciliates
These eukaryotes are not animals, plants, or fungi.
What are protists?
The symbiotic relationships between fungal hyphae and plant roots.
What are mycorrhizae?
Based on nutrition, slime molds belong to this group of protists.
fungus-like
Dark fuzz that grows rapidly on bread is an example of this.
What is mold?
This group of protozoans moves using one or more flagella.
zooflagellates
These are animal-like protists.
What are protozoans?
Threadlike structures that make up the bodies of most fungi.
hyphae
This is a type of unicellular plant-like protist with beautiful glass-like cell walls.
diatom
A fungus that forms this within the outer layers of human skin is the cause of athlete's foot.
mycelium
identify the two main structures of a mushroom and give function of each
The fruiting body is responsible for producing spores. The mycelium is the feeding structure of the fungi.
These are plant-like protists.
What are Algae?
Single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by simple cell division or by pinching off small "buds" from a parent cell
yeast
The contractile vacuole is used to do this.
maintain water balance
Flavoring in certain foods, a source of antibiotics, and ingredients in baking and brewing are ways that who use fungus.
humans
These are mostly microscopic photosynthetic organisms that drift or swim near the surface of ponds, lakes, and oceans.
What are phytoplankton?
a mutualistic pairing of a fungus and an alga
Lichen
Name one organism in the kingdom protista that is pathogenic. What malady does this organism cause?
Options include:
Entamoeba histolytica = dysentery
Trypanosoma = African sleeping sickness
Balantidium coli = dysentery
Plasmodium = malaria
Toxoplasma = toxoplasmosis
Name a malady caused by pathogenic fungi.
Options include:
crop damage from rust of smuts
Chestnut blight
Dutch elm disease
ergot of rye
potato wart
Athlete's foot
Ringworm
fungal infections caused by Candida yeast