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Which organism changes the environment by causing cracks in rocks where other organisms can grow?
Lichen
What is an organism invaded by a parasite seeking nutrients
Host
What are eukaryotic heterotrophs with rigid cell walls and no chlorophyll called?
Fungi
What is a protist that makes its own food
Producer
What do chloroplasts do?
Capture energy from the sun
When hyphae grow together in a twisted mass, what do they form?
Mycelium
What is a tiny, hairlike structure
Cilia
What process do single-celled protists use in asexual reproduction to make more than two offspring from one parent?
Multiple fission
What is a protist that invades another organism to get the nutrients it needs
Parasite
Automatic 100 points
Griddy
Which type of organism makes its own food?
Protist producer
what is a free-floating single-celled algae
Phytoplankton
What characteristic of protists means that their cells have a nucleus?
Eukaryotic
What is a threadlike fungal filament
Hypha
what is an organism with a shell containing a glasslike substance called silica
Diatom
what is a protist producer that uses photosynthesis to make food
Algae
What process do some protists use to make their own food?
Photosynthesis
What is a fungus that looks like wool or cotton
Mold
What is produced during asexual reproduction that can be easily spread by the wind?
Spores
In asexual reproduction, how many parents are there?
One
What is an organism that cannot make its own food
Most of the world’s seaweeds are what type of protist producer?
Red algae
What is an algae that get their color from chlorophyll, the main pigment in their cells
Green algae
What do protists NOT have that other eukaryotic organisms have?
Specialized tissues
What is a combination of a fungus and an alga
lichen