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The shrinking of a cell's cytoplasm due to dehydration (water loss).
What is plasmolysis?
The study of fungi.
What is mycology?
Chitin is found in this type of organism.
What are fungi?
Causes the disease malaria.
What is plasmodium?
Has chloroplasts that form a spiral.
What is spirogyra?
An extension of cytoplasm used by some cells to move or feed.
What is a pseudopod?
A heating process that reduces the level of microbes in a liquid to a safe level for consumption and storage.
What is pasteurization?
If a protist living in fresh water bursts open, what organelle is not working?
What is the contractile vacuole?
Made of many individuals that form a spherical shape.
What is volvox?
Has either radial or bilateral symmetry.
What are radiolarian?
Groups of cells that are involved in metabolic activity and growth.
What are vegetative structures?
Two or more organisms living together in a relationship where they all benefit.
What is mutualism?
This type of fruiting body is formed by a shelf fungus.
What is a basidiocarp?
Form a mutualistic relationship with coral.
What are dinoflagellates?
Organisms that obtain nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter.
What are saprotrophs?
Two organisms living together in a relationship where one benefits and the host is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
Multicellular fungal structure made of many hyphae that are compact and form a thallus (body).
What is fleshy fungus?
This unicellular sac fungus does not form an ascocarp.
What is yeast?
Unicellular organism with a cell wall made of silica.
What is a diatom?
Uses cilia to move and has both a macronucleus and a micronucleus.
What is paramecium?
The study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms.
What is phylogenetics?
Unicellular alveolates with a cell wall made of cellulose.
What are dinoflagellates?
The name given to the mutualistic relationship between a fungus and a root.
What is mycorrhiza?
Have two flagella, one of which protrudes from the cell.
What is euglena?
This genus of fungus was the first antibiotic identified.
What is penicillium?