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what is a protozoan?
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an animal-like protist
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how are protzoans classified?
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according to how they move and how they live.
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how do protozoans move?
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sarcodines: use pseudopods to move and capture food
ciliates: cillia flagellates:flagellum sporozoans:host |
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what are the 5 types of algaes?
what are their uses? |
DIATOMS:used as polishing agents;most numerous;carved glasslike boxes
DINOFLAGELLATES:glow in the dark;2 flagella held in grooves b/w plates RED ALGAE: used in hair conditionairs and ice cream; seaweed BROWN ALGAE: used in puddings as thickeners;sseaweed that has gas-filled floates GREEN ALGAE:makes most of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere |
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how are algae classified?
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according to their color(pigment) and how they store their food
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what caused the Irish Potatoe Famine?
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a water mold
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list the 3 groups of fungi.
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sac, club, zygote fungi
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how are fungi classified?
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according to their reproductive structures
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what 3 important characteristics do fungi share?
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eukarytic, heterotrophs, and produce spores
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what are some human diseases caused by fungi?
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ringworm and athlete's foot
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how are fungi important?
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they produce food, serve as decomposers, fight disease, cause disease, and live in symbiosis with other organisms
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eukaryotes that cannot be classified as animals , plants, and fungi
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protist
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unicellular animal-like protists
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protozoan
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temporary bulges of the cell
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pseudopods
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structure that collects the extra water and then expels it from the cell
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contractile vacuolea
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hairlike projections from cells that move and obtain food
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cilia
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a close relationship in which at least one of the species benifits
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symbiosis
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when both partners benifit from living together
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mutualism
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algae
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autotroph, plantlike protists extremely diverse
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spore
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a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism
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fungi
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eukaryotes that have cell walls, nuclus, and is an hertotroph
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hyphae
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branching threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of multicelluar fungi
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fruiting bodies
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the reproductive structure of a fungus that contains many hyphae and produces spores
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lichens
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the combinations of a fungus and either an algae or an autotrophic bacterium that kive together in a mutualistic relationship
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