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Eukaryotic one- or many-celled organism which lives in a moist or wet environment; some are plant-like and contain chlorophyll while others are animal-like and can move
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Protist
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Protists are difficult to ...
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Classify
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The _________ of protists is studied through fossils and genetic material
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evolution
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Plantlike protists are called what
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algae
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What does algae contain to make food
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chlorophyll
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These are found in fresh and salt water, make glasslike boxes which can form fossils
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Diatoms
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What are long, thin, whiplike strutures which help to move in the saltwater environment
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Flagella
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What organisms use flagells to move in saltwater evironment
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dinoflagellages
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These have characteristics of both plants and animals
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Euglenoids
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When this is present, euglenoids can make their own food.
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Light
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In the absence of light, what do euglenoids eat
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bacteria or other protists
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What is another name for seaweeds
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Red algae
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These organisms are usually many-celled and can live at depths of 175m and contain chlorophyll and large amounts of red pigment
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Red Algae
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These contain large amounts of chlorophyll and can be 1-celled or many-celled; some scientists hypothesize that plants evolved from these
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Green Algae
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What is another name for brown algae
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Kelp
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This is an important source of food and shelter for aquatic organisms
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Brown algae or kelp
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algae produce oxygen through this
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photosynthesis
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Algae are used in many cosmetics and what
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food products
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1-celled animal protists that are classified by how they move are called
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protozoans
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ciliates have threadlike structures called what
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cilia
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Eukaryotic one- or many-celled organism which lives in a moist or wet environment; some are plant-like and contain chlorophyll while others are animal-like and can move
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Protist
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Protists are difficult to ...
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Classify
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The _________ of protists is studied through fossils and genetic material
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evolution
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Plantlike protists are called what
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algae
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What does algae contain to make food
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chlorophyll
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Where do flagellates live
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fresh water
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Where do proterospongia grow
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cell colonies
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Some protozoans move and eat using false feet. Another name for these is
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pseudopods
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________________________ trap its food with its pseudopods
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amoeba
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_____________________ protozoans can push a pseudopod through a hole in the shell
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Shelled
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Protozoans are in in source of what for many animals
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food
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shelled protozoans become a part of what layers
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cetiment
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Geologists can use the shelled protozoans in the centiment layers as an indicator species to help locate this
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petroleum reserves
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What can parasites case in humans
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disease
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Funguslike protists produce what
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spores
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what is usually found on decaying vegetation in moist, cool areas
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slime and mold
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what grows on spoiling food and damp places like show curtains
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fungi
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Threadlike tubes that produce enzymes for digestion are called what
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hyphae
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fungi are ________________, feeding on dead or decaying material
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saprophytes
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do fungi make their own food?
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no
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a zygote fungus produces spores in a round case called
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sporangium
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organisms composed of a fungus and either a green algae or a cyanobacterium are called
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lichens
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lichens help rocks
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weather or breakdown
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some fungi form a hyphae network with plant roots called
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mycorrhizae
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many fungi produce
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antibiotics
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fungi are impartant as
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decomposers
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reproductive cell of fungi
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spore
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animal-like protist
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protozoans
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structure in club fungi holding reproductive cell
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basidium
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sac of reproductive cells in yeast and other sac fungi
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ascus
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mass of threadlike tubes composing the body of fungi
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hyphae
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Footlike cytoplasmic extensions
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pseudopods
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organism made of a fungus and green algae or cyanobacteria
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lichen
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organism made of a fungus and green algae or cyanobacteria
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lichen
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plantlike protists
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algae
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short threadlike structures extending from the cell membrane that aid locomotion in some animal-like protists
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cilia
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case of reproductive cells in zygote fungi
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sporangium
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form of reproduction used by yeasts in which an organism grows off the side of the parent
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budding
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organisms that obtain food by feeding on dead or decaying organisms
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saprophytes
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mushrooms are what kind of fungus
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club
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a network of fungus hyphae and plant roots that benefit both
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mycorrhizae
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