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Protists And Fungi Flashcards

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Heterotrophic protists that are classified according to their movement

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Animal like Protista

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Any eukaryotic organisms that is not a plant, an animal, or a fungus

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Protist

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Cytoplasmic projections that allows some single celled organisms to move

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Pseudopod

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Small, bottle shaped structures used by Paramecium for defense

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Trichocyst

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A specialized vacuole that collects and then expels excess water from a unicellular organism

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Contractile vacuole

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Autotrophic protists that perform photosynthesis

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Plant like Protists

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A cluster of pigments that allow Protists to find light and perform photosynthesis

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Eyespot

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Plant like Protists that are members of the phylum pyrrophyta and cause red tides, many are bioluminescent

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Dinoflagellates

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Small, photosynthetic organisms that live on the surface of the ocean; primarily made up of plant like Protists; responsible for half of the photosynthesis on earth

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Phytoplankton

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Plant like Protists that produce cell walls rich in silicon; a component of phytoplankton

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Diatoms

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Funguslike protests that are members of the phylum acraisiomycota and stay in a cellular form thought their life cycle

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Cellular slime molds

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Fungus like Protists that are members of the phylum myxomycota and will fuse together into one structure with many nuclei

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Acelluar slime molds

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Fungus like protist that are members of the phylum Oomycota and feed on dead or decaying matter in water, caused The Great Potato Famine

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Water molds

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Eukaryotic haterotrophs with cell walls of chitin

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Fungi

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Thin filaments that compose multicellular fungi

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Hyphae

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A thick mass formed by many tangled hyphae that compose the body of a fungus

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Mycelium

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A reproductive structure in fungi

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Fruiting body

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The structures in fungi that produce spores

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Sporangia

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Fungi classified in the phylum zygomycota, includes rhizopus or bread mold

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Common molds

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Fungi classified in the phylum ascomycota; yeast truffles and morels

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Sac fungi

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Fungi classified in the phylum badidiomycota ex- mushroom and puffballs

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Club fungi

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Fungi classified in the phylum deuteromycota; fungi that cannot be placed in another phylum because a sexual phase in the life cycle has never been observed

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Imperfect fungi

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Symbiotic associations between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism

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Lichens

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A mutualistic relationship between plants and fungi

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Mycorrhizae

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