Cells Flashcards
What is fungi ?
Fungi are usually bigger than bacteria. Most fungi are multicellular (e.g. mushrooms), but
some are simple unicellular organisms. Yeast are an example of unicellular fungi.
like plants do, but instead they eat other organisms, as animals do.
What is amoeba
Amoeba’s are tiny single-celled organisms which need to be viewed using a
microscope. There are many different species, but the biggest is only 1 mm across.
What is bacteria ?
Bacteria consist of only a single cell each, whereas each one of you is made up of about
10,000,000,000,000 cells! If there is just one of them, we call it a bacterium.
What is euglena ?
Euglena are single-celled organisms which live in water.
They have chloroplasts which they used to make their own food. They can however also absorb food from their environment.