Algae Vocabulary

Question 0

Agar

Answer 0

A gelatinous substance obtained from various kinda of red seaweed.

Question 1

Algae

Answer 1

A simple non flowering plant of a large group that includes many single celled forms.

Question 2

Aquatic

Answer 2

Growing or living in/near water.

Question 3

Endosymbiont Hypothesis

Answer 3

Mitochondria and plastids represent formerly free-living bacteria that were taken inside another cell as an endosymbiont.

Question 4

Alternation of Generation

Answer 4

The alteration of 2 or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal.

Question 5

Bloom

Answer 5

Rapid increase/accumulation in the population of algae.

Question 6

Bioluminescent

Answer 6

Living organisms emitting light.

Question 7

Diatom

Answer 7

A single-celled algae that has a cell wall of silica.

Question 8

Dinoflagellate

Answer 8

A single celled organism with 2 flagellum, occurring in large numbers

Question 9

Kelp

Answer 9

A large brown seaweed that usually has a long, tough stalk

Question 10

Red tide

Answer 10

A discoloration of seawater caused by a bloom of toxic red dinoflagellates.

Question 11

Stigma

Answer 11

“Eyespot” of algae - sensitive to light.

Question 12

Producer

Answer 12

An organism that can produce it’s own food using natural resources.

Question 13

Phytoplankton

Answer 13

Plankton consisting of microscopic plants.

Question 14

Marine

Answer 14

Of, found in, or produced by the sea.

Question 15

Diatomite (diatomaceous earth)

Answer 15

A fine-grained sedimentary rock formed from consolidated diatomaceous earth.

Question 16

Fucus

Answer 16

A seaweed of a large genus of brown algae having flat leathery fronds.

Question 17

Sargassum

Answer 17

A brown seaweed with berry like air blatters.

Question 18

Filament

Answer 18

A slender thread-like object or fiber.

Question 19

Slime Mold

Answer 19

A simple organism that consists of an acellular mass of creeping jellylike protoplasm containing nuclei.

Question 20

Zoospore

Answer 20

A spore of certain algae, fungi, and protozoans capable of swimming with flagellum.

Question 21

Isogamete

Answer 21

Either of a pair of conjugating gametes of the same size and structure

Question 22

Heterogamete

Answer 22

Pair of gametes with different structure and behavior

Question 23

Syngamy

Answer 23

The fusion of 2 cells, or their nuclei, in reproduction

Question 24

Silicon dioxide

Answer 24

A hard, colorless compound

Question 25

Air bladder

Answer 25

Air filled bladder or sac found in certain animals or plants

Question 26

Thallus

Answer 26

A plant body that isn’t differentiated into stem and leaves, and lacks true roots and vascular system

Question 27

Stipe

Answer 27

A stalk or stem of seaweed or fungus

Question 28

Blade

Answer 28

Expanded part of a leaf or seaweed

Question 29

Holdfast

Answer 29

A firm grip-seaweed is attached to it’s support

Question 30

Blue-green algae

Answer 30

Group of predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms

Question 31

Euglena

Answer 31

A green, single celled, freshwater organism with a flagellum

Question 32

Spirogyra

Answer 32

A filamentous freshwater green algae containing spiral bands of chloroplasts

Question 33

Chlamydomonas

Answer 33

Single celled green algae that lives in water and moist soil

Question 34

Volvox

Answer 34

A green, single celled aquatic organism