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protist & fungi card
14 cards
Question | Answer |
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hyphae | a mass of many celled thread like tubes |
saprophytes | organisms that obtain food by absorbing dead or decaying tissues of other organisms |
spore | a waterproof reproductive cell that can grow into a new organism |
basidium | a club shaped spore |
ascus | a little saclike spore |
budding | a form of asexual reproduction in which a new organism forms on the side of a parent organism |
sporangium | a round spore case |
lichen | an organism that is made of a fungus and either a green alga or a cynobacterium |
mycorrhizae | a network of hyphae and roots |
algae | plantlike protist |
flagellum | a long, thin, whiplike structure used for movement |
cilia | short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane |
protist | a one- or many celled organism that lives in moist or wet surroundings |
protozoan | one-celled, animal-like protists |
pseudopod | temporary extentions of the organisms cytoplasm(it meens "false foot") |