Protists 1
Protists are not easily classified and can be categorized according to these three broad groups.
What are plantlike, animal like, and fungus like protists?
This plantlike protist is frequently found on the surface of ponds.
What is algae?
These organisms are made up of a fungi and either green algae or cyanobacterium.
What is a lichen?
Fungi are these kinds of organisms, meaning they do not make their own food.
What are heterotrophs?
Amoebas and Slime Molds have these footlike cytoplasmic extensions.
What are pseudopods?
Flagellates can be beneficial in digesting wood for termites. They move with this whip-like tail structure.
What are flagella/what is a flagellum?
This is the reproductive cell of a fungi.
What are spores/what is a spore?
Fungi consume dead matter, meaning they are these types of organisms.
What are decomposers?
These small oar-like structures protrude from Paramecia and enable it to move.
What are cilia?
This is the category name for animal-like protists.
What are Protozoa/Protozoan?
Club fungi have this reproductive structure.
What is a basidium?
Fungi used to be classified as this type of organism because they appeared to grow.
What are plants?
Protists are in this broad group of organisms which have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is eukaryotic?
This type of fungus-like protist caused the Irish potato famine.
What is a watermold?
This is the mass of threadlike tubes that make up a fungus.
What are hyphae?
This form of reproduction is used by yeast and sees the new yeast grow off the side of the parent.
What is budding?
Algae contain this pigment that typically makes plants green.
What is chlorophyll?
This type of algae can live up to 200 meters deep.
What is red algae?
This sac-like structure helps in the reproductive process of some fungi.
What is an ascus?
This is the symbiotic association of plant roots and fungi.
What is mycorrhizae?