protists, fungi, plants Flashcards

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protists

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an organism that belongs to the Kingdom Protista

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Heterotroph

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an organism that gets food by eating other organisms or their by-products and that cannot make organic compounds from inorganic materials

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Eukaryotic

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an organism made up of cells that have a nucleus enclosed by a membrane; eukaryotes include animals plants and fungi but not archaea bacteria or eubacteria

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Decomposer

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an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms are animal wastes and consuming her absorbing the nutrients

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Parasite

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an organism that feeds on an organism of another species and that usually harms the host; the host never benefits from the presence of the parasite

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Host

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an orgasm from which a parasite takes food or shelter

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Fungi

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a kingdom made up of non-green earache organisms that have no means of movement reproduced by using spores and get food by breaking down substances in their surroundings and absorbing the nutrients

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Spore

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reproductive cell or multicellular structure that is resistant to stressful environmental conditions and that’s the develop into an adult without fusing with another cell

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Lichen

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a massive fungal and agile cells that grow together in a symbiotic relationship and that are usually found on rocks and trees

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Nonvascular plant

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the three groups of plants liverworts hornworts in mosses that lack specialized conducting tissues in true roots stems and leaves

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Vascular plant

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a plant that has specialized tissue that conduct materials from one part of the plant to another

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Gymnosperm

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a woody vascular seed plants whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit

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Angiosperma

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flowering plant that produces seeds within an aproved

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Photosynthesis

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the process by which plants algae and some bacteria use sunlight carbon dioxide and water to make food

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Cellular respiration

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the process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food

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Transpiration

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the process by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata also the release of water vapor into the air by other organisms

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Tropism

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growth of all or part of an organism in response to an external stimulus such as light

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Gymnosperm

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seed plants that do not have words or fruit usually protected by a cone of four groups are conifers ginkgoes cycads and gneophytes

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phototropism

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a change of direction of plant grows that is caused by light

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asexual reproduction

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reproduction that does not involve the union of sex cells and in which one parent produces offspring that are generally identical to the parent

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xylem

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the type of tissue and vascular plants that provide support and conducts water and nutrients from the roots

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phloem

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the tissue that conducts food in vascular plants

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lichen

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a mass of fungal and agal cells that grow together in a symbiotic relationship that are usually found on rocks of trees

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vascular plant

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a plant that has specialized tissues that conduct materials from one part of the plant to another