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15 Cards in this Set
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Protists that make their own food and usually live in water?
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What is ALGAE?
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Ex. Green pond scum.
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What is the study of living things?
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What is BIOLOGY?
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Bio means life & ology means the study of.
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Hair-like structures that help some one-celled organism move.
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What is CILIA?
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Hair-Like!
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To break down or decay matter into simpler substances.
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What is Decompose?
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Ex. rotting matter
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Whip like tails that help some one-celled organism move.
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What is Flagella?
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derived from "flagellate" meaning to whip.
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An organism that usually has many cells and decomposes its food.
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What is Fungus?
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Ex. mushrooms, molds, & yeasts. Have cell walls, absorb their food from their surroundings, & have no chlorophyll.
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One of the five groups into which living things are classified.
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What is a Kingdom?
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Ex. Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, and Monerans.
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An organism that is too small to be seen without a microscope.
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What is a Microorganism? (37)
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Ex. Protists (Algae or Protozoans) & Monerans (Bacteria)
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An organism that is one-celled and does not have organelles.
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What is a Moneran? (39)
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Ex. good and bad bacteria which causes strep throat and foods like cheese & yogurt.
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A living thing that can carry out all the basic life activities.
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What is an Organism? (33
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Root word is Latin for "tool"; a lifeform that has "tools" for doing certain jobs in the body.
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An organism that absorbs food from a living organism and harms it.
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What is a Parasite? (38)
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Ex. Dutch Elm Disease or Chestnut Blight in trees, mistletoe, or ringworm fungus or skin disease.
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A quality that describes an object.
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What is a Property? (32)
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Ex. All nonliving things do not have life activities, move by self, develop, product, or produce cells.
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An organism that usually is one-celled and has plant like or animal like properties.
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What is a Protist? (37 & 38)
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Include animal-like protozoans like Ameba, Paramecium, and Euglena .
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A protist that has animal-like qualities.
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What are Protozoans? (38)
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Ex. Paramecium, Euglena, and Ameba.
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A part of some one-celled organisms that sticks out like a food to move the cell along.
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What is a Pseudopod?
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Amebas have a (false foot) for finding food in movement. (38)
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