Fungi
Fungi reproduce with these distinctive structures.
What are spores?
The animal-like protists also go by this more formal name.
What is protozoa?
Although derived from green algae, all plants have this structure that helps prevent dessication (drying out).
What is a cuticle?
Sponges are an outlier among animals because they lack this distinctive information-carrying tissue.
What are nerves?
Plants, animals, fungi, and protists are all unified by this distinct eukaryotic structure.
What is the nucleus?
Twinsies? Like animals, fungi use this type of metabolism that requires obtaining carbon from other organisms.
What is a heterotroph?
The oomycota have this informal name because they grow in hyphae and reproduce with spores.
What is fungus-like?
The most primitive plants fall within this group, and they must all grow near moisture due to the lack of vascular tissue.
What are bryophytes?
Cnidarians are so called because they possess these distinctive stinging cells.
What are cnidocytes?
This group of plants grows taller because they possess vascular tissue, but must grow near water because they do not produce seeds.
What are the ferns/pteridophytes?
Fungi absorb nutrients from the environment, and to maximize surface area, they grow in this distinctive form.
What are hyphae?
This group of algae shares close common ancestry with the land plants.
What are the green algae?
This group of plants produces seeds, but not flowers and fruit.
What are the gymnosperms?
All arthropods must go through this process because their rigid exoskeleton does not grow.
What is molting?
Sponges move water through their body using these distinctive cells.
What are collar cells/choanocytes?
The mushrooms we see are only a small part of a fungus. Most of the fungus is underground and is called this term.
Organisms like Paramecium fall within this group based on their movement that uses many small projections off of the cell.
What are ciliates?
These two types of tissue form the vascular bundles and carry water and nutrients around plants.
What are xylem and phloem?
This phylum is a little unusual because movement, circulation, and respiration are all performed by a single water-vascular system.
What is Echinodermata?
This is the more common name for the male gametophyte found in angiosperms and gymnosperms.
What is pollen?
Like plants, fungi have a cell wall. Unlike plants, their cell wall is made of this complex carbohydrate.
What is chitin?
Malaria is caused by this complex and highly dangerous group of protozoans.
What are the sporozoans?
This is the term for the weird life cycle of plants, where haploid generations give rise to diploid generations, and vice versa.
What is alternation of generations?
This chordate characteristic develops into gill arches in fish, and parts of the inner ear in humans.
What are pharyngeal pouchess/slits.
This technical term for the group of fungi that includes mushrooms references the club-like shape of the spores.
What is Basidiomycota?