Microorganism Vocabulary

Question 1

single-celled

Answer 1

organisms with only one cell

Question 2

producer

Answer 2

organisms that make their own food, usually through photosynthesis

Question 3

consumer

Answer 3

organisms that eat other organisms for food

Question 4

decomposer

Answer 4

an organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plants or animals

Question 5

algae

Answer 5

plant-like protists that make their own food

Question 6

protozoa

Answer 6

animal-like protists that eat other organisms for food

Question 7

cilia

Answer 7

hair-like structures that paramecia use to move

Question 8

flagella

Answer 8

tail-like structure that euglena use to move

Question 9

pseudopod

Answer 9

fake feet protrusions that amoeba use to move and consume other organisms

Question 10

yeast

Answer 10

single-celled fungi that consume sugar as nutrients

Question 11

fungi

Answer 11

organisms that absorb nutrients from the things that they grow on

Question 12

hyphae

Answer 12

thread like structures that fungi use to absorb nutrients

Question 13

budding

Answer 13

a type of asexual reproduction or cloning that allow yeast to produce offspring

Question 14

spores

Answer 14

used by fungi to reproduce

Question 15

bacteria

Answer 15

simple single-celled organisms that are found everywhere

Question 16

fission

Answer 16

a type of asexual reproduction where one bacterial cell splits into two

Question 17

culture

Answer 17

a nutrient medium on which a microorganism grows (ex: bacteria grows on agar and mold grows on bread)