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?
A living arrangement in which both things benefit
What is mutualism?
Used to make bread, alcohol, and antibiotics
What are sac fungi?
Short, hair-like structures that help some animal-like protists such as the paramecium move.
What are cilia?
These digest food outside their body by releasing chemicals that break down the food into small molecules. Then the digested food is absorbed.
What are fungi?
Method 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?
These help to form soil and provide food for animals
What are lichen?
Some protists such as those in genus Giardia use these long, whip-like structures for movement.
What are flagella?
These reproduce in large numbers until the tide turns red
What are dinoflagellates?
Exists as a single-celled amoeba-like organism, but can come together and form colonies in unfavorable conditions.
What is a slime mold?
Reproduction in which a small part of the parent grows into a new organism
What is budding?
Plantlike protists that have chlorophyll and make their own food
What is algae?
Parasitic, animal-like protists that cannot move.
What are sporozoans?
One-celled animal-like organisms with a nucleus?
What are protozoans?
Tough reproductive structures produced by fungi through either mitosis or meiosis.
What are spores?
Three kinds of protists
What are animal-like protists, plantlike protists. and funguslike protists?
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?
When an organism has many different cells that do certain jobs for the organism
What is multicellular?
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 sporangium?