VOCABULARY

Protist Is a single or many-celled organisms that live in moist or wet surroundings.

Budding Type of asexual reproduction where offspring grows off parent.

Protozoans Name for animal-like protists

Cilia Hair-like structures used for movement.

Spore A reproductive cell that forms new organisms without fertilization in fungi, ferns and some protists.

Amoeba Animal-like protist; moves using pseudopods

Euglena Protist that can be plant or animal – like; flagellum; eyespot

Lichen An organism made up of a fungus and green algae or a cyanobacterium living in a mutualistic relationship.

Pseudopod A foot-like cytoplasmic extension used by some organisms to move and to trap food.

Saprophyte Feeds off of dead or decaying organic matter.

Algae Plant-like protists. Photosynthetic. Multi-cellular or unicellular.

Chlorophyta Phylum name for green algae

Rhodophyta Phylum name for red algae

Phaeophyta Phylum name for brown algae

Paramecium Animal-like protist with cilia for movement.

Irish Potato Famine When water mold broke out in an Irish farm and killed nearly 1 million people.

Hyphae Mass of thread-like tubes that make up the body of a fungus.

Deuteromycota This fungi doesn’t reproduce sexually; only asexually. Causes ringworm and athlete’s foot.

Zygomycota Bread mold; produce spores in round spore cases called sporangia

Sporangia The round spore cases of zygote fungi

Basidium Holds the spores of a club fungi

Ascomycota The spores of these fungi are produced in a little sac-like structure.

Ascus The small, sac-like structure in which sac fungi produce spores.

mycorrihzae System of hyphae and plant roots; helps plant absorb nutrients