Science Vocabulary Ch. 8
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- One celled animal like protist
- protozoa
- plant like protists that contain chlorophyll and make their own food
- Algae
- members of the kingdom protista; some are plant like, others are animal like and others are fungus like, simple one celled or many celled organism.
- Protist
- an organism made up of a fungus and green algae or a cyanobacterium living in a mutualistic relationship
- lichen
- a reproductive cell that forms new organisms without fertilization; in fungi, ferns and some protists
- spore
- the round spore cases of zygote fungi
- sporangia
- an algal population explosion that causes the water to look red and can cause fish kills and illness
- red tide
- the small sac-like structure in which sac fungi produce spores
- ascus
- the club shaped spore producting structure of club fungi
- basidium
- the type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism grows off the side of its parent
- budding
- the mass of many celled threadlike tubes that form the body of a fungus
- hyphae
- short hair like structure that extends from the cell membrane, it helps tiny organisms move
- cilia
- a foot like cytoplasmic extension used by some organisms to move and track food
- pseudopod