Animal-Like Protists
An extension of cytoplasm used for movement and capturing prey.
What is a pseudopod?
The process that allows plant-like protists to create their own food from energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
The method of gathering nutrients used by fungus-like protists.
What is decomposition (or absorption)?
A carbohydrate that is commonly found in the cell walls of fungi as well as in the exoskeletons of some insects.
What is chitin?
Classification of fungi that almost all mushrooms fit into; characterized by a basidium.
What are club fungi (or basidiomycetes)?
Short, hair-like structures that help some animal-like protists such as the paramecium move.
What are cilia?
Photosynthetic unicellular protists with silica shells.
What are diatoms?
Method of spreading DNA used by fungus-like protists for reproduction.
What is releasing spores?
The typical fungal body is made of these long, threadlike filaments.
What are hyphae?
Type of aquatic fungi that used to be classified as protists.
What is chytrid fungi (or chytridiomycota)?
Some protists such as those in genus Giardia use these long, whip-like structures for movement.
What are flagella?
These plant-like protists are similar to green plants and are probably their ancestors.
What are green algae?
Exists as a single-celled amoeba-like organism, but can come together and form colonies in unfavorable conditions.
What is a slime mold?
Fungi, are called this when they eat by absorbing nutrients from dead or decaying organisms.
What is a saprophyte?
The type of fungi that is characterized by an ascus.
What is sac fungi (or ascomycetes)?
Parasitic, animal-like protists that cannot move and can cause malaria.
What are sporozoans?
The largest example of brown algae; found in cool oceans.
What is kelp?
The multinucleate cytoplasm of a slime mold.
What is a plasmodium?
Tough reproductive structures produced by fungi through either mitosis or meiosis.
What are spores?
A mutualistic association between a fungi and plant roots.
What is mycorrhiza?
General name for all animal-like protists; "little animals"
What are protozoans?
The poisonous "red tides" that can occur in coastal areas are associated with these plant-like protists.
What are dinoflagellates?
Parasitic forms of fungus-like protists that often infect farm crops.
What are water molds?
A type of sac fungi that exists strictly in a unicellular state, and reproduces by budding.
What is yeast?
Bread mold is an example of the type of fungi that is named for this reproductive structure that produces zygotes.
What is a zygomycota?