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Basic Reproduction
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Protists
Fungi
Ecology
100
This type of eukaryotic cell division produces two daughter cells identical to each other and to the parent cell.
What is mitosis?
100
Single-celled fungi may use this form of mitosis where one daughter cell is much smaller than the parent cell.
What is budding?
100
An amoeba uses these structures to move and capture food.
What are pseudopods?
100
Fungi have cell walls made of this modified carbohydrate.
What is chitin?
100
These floating organisms (e.g., algae) are the producers at the bottom of aquatic food webs.
What are phytoplankton?
200
This type of eukaryotic cell division produces four daughter cells that have half the chromosome number of the parent cell.
What is meiosis?
200
Protists may use this form of repeated mitosis that produces more than two identical daughter cells.
What is multiple fission?
200
This grouping of protists tends to be more motile and heterotrophic.
What are protozoans?
200
Multicellular fungal "thread."
What is a hypha?
200
Name a beneficial role of fungi in the environment.
What is decomposer?
300
This type of reproduction uses mitosis or binary fission to produce offspring that are identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
300
Protists may use mitosis to form these cells with thick, protective cell walls.
What are spores?
300
The protist Paramecium uses these "hairs" covering its cell membrane to move about.
What are cilia?
300
This largest phylum of fungi, also known as sac fungi, includes the mold Penicillium.
What is Ascomycota?
300
Protists are infamous for this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is parasitism?
400
This type of reproduction uses meiosis to produce offspring that are different from the parent and from each other.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
Protists may use this form of sexual reproduction, which involves meiosis, to exchange genetic information with partners.
What is conjugation?
400
Photosynthetic protists are generally known by this name.
What are algae?
400
This second largest phylum of fungi, also known as club fungi, produces fruiting bodies with stipes, caps, and gills, such as mushrooms.
What is Basidiomycota?
400
Name the two organisms involved in the symbiotic structure of a lichen.
What are fungi and algae?
500
Meiosis requires a parent cell to have this chromosome number or higher.
What is diploid?
500
Although fungi are usually haploid, strands from two different fungi may fuse to form this diploid structure that produces haploid spores by meiosis.
What is a fruiting body?
500
A protozoan living in pure water may need to protect itself using this organelle.
What is a contractile vacuole?
500
This group of fungi, which fuses hyphae to form a zygosporangium, includes black bread mold.
What is Zygomycota?
500
Explain how evolutionists believe eukaryotic protists evolved from prokaryotes.
What is endosymbiosis?