Chapter 16 Part 1 Flashcards
A life cycle in which there is both a multicellular diploid form, the sporophyte, and a multicellular haploid form, the gametophyte; a characteristic of plants and multicellular green algae.
Alternations of generations
A protist that produces its food by photosynthesis.
Alga/Algae
A protist that moves and feeds by means of pseudopodia.
Amoeba
A member of a clade of protists that includes amoebas and slime molds and is characterized by lobe-shaped pseudopodia.
Amoebozoan
One of two prokaryotic domains of life.
Archae
An organism that makes its own food (often by photosynthesis), thereby sustaining itself without eating other organisms or their molecules. Plants, algae, and numerous bacteria are autotrophs.
Autotroph
A rod-shaped prokaryotic cell.
Bacillus
One of two prokaryotic domains of life.
Bacteria
A surface-coating colony of prokaryotes that engage in metabolic cooperation.
Biofilm
The use of living organisms to detoxify and restore polluted and degraded ecosystems.
Bioremediation
One of a group of marine, multicellular, autotrophic protists belonging to the stramenopile clade; the most common and largest type of seaweed. This organism includes the kelps.
Brown Algae
A type of protist that has unicellular amoeboid cells and aggregated reproductive bodies in its life cycle; members of amoebozoan clade.
Cellular Slime Mold
An organism that obtains both energy and carbon from inorganic chemicals. This organism makes its own organic compounds from CO2 without using light energy.
Chemo-autograph
A group of bacteria that live inside eukaryotic host cells. Includes human pathogens that cause blindness and nongonococcal urethritis, a common sexually transmitted disease.
Chlamydia
A type of protist that moves and feeds by means of cilia. This protist belongs to the alveolate clade.
Ciliate