fungi terms
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- fungi
- a kingdom of organisms that feed off other organisms, have have branching filaments, and fruiting bodies that produce spores to reproduce
- enzymes
- a class of proteins that act as catalysts in the cell
- pfiesteria
- an algae that can become toxic and kill fish
- cell wall
- a thick layer of material that surruonds the cell membrane of plants, fungi, bacteria, and algea, which provides support and protection for the cell
- lichens
- an organism that grows on trees and rocks and is formed by a combination of algea and fungi
- fermentation
- the production of alcohol and carbon dioxide from sugar that occurs in certain yeasts
- protists
- a group of mostly unicellular organisms that share the certain characteristics with amimals, plants, or both
- algea
- a group of mostly aquatic plantlike protists that make food by photosynthesis
- spore
- tiny particle that is the means of reproduction in fungi
- protozoa
- animal-like single celled organisms that are part of of the protist kingdom
- hyphea
- branching filaments of fungi
- cellulose
- a polysacharide that forms the cell wall of plants
- symbosis
- a beneficial relationship between two or more organisms
- mold
- microscopic fungi
- antibiotic
- a class of drugs used to fight bactirial infections
- diploid
- having two full sets of chromosomes
- chitin
- a nitrogen containing polysacharide that makes up the cell wall of fungi and exoskeletons of insects
- asexual reproduction
- reproduction that does not require the fusion of sex cells. Offspring are identical to the parent organism