Biology 26 Flashcards
An organelle in protists that expels water
Contractile vacuole
A sometimes fatal disease that caused by an amoeba that enters threnody in contaminated food or water
Amebic dysentery
An illness characterised by severe diarrhoea and intestinal cramps caused by a protozoan parasite
Giardiasis
A very serious disease characterised by severe chills, fever, sweating, fatigue and great thirst
Malaria
A funnel like structure used by ciliates for feeding
Oral groove
A rigid protein covering of some unicellular organisms
Pellicle
Animal-like plant-like fungus like are eukaryotic and lack tissue differentiation
Protist
A single celled, eukaryotic protists that a is able to move independently
Protozoan
Any of the form of sleeping sickness of Chagas’ disease
Trypanosomiasis
Microscopic animal Organisms that drift in bodies of water worldwide; represent a basic level of feeding relation ships
Zooplankton