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LIFE SCIENCE |
Chapter 8
Vocabulary
_______________--in protists, short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane of a ciliate and enable the organism to move quickly.
_______________--long, thin whip-like structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surroundings.
______________--organism that uses dead organisms as a food source and helps recycle nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms.
______________--chlorophyll-containing, plantlike protists that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis.
_______________--one-celled, animal-like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms.
_______________--form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically-identical organism forms on the side of its parent.
______________--saclike, spore-producing structure of sac fungi
_______________--one- or many-celled eukaryotic organism that can be plantlike, animal-like, or fungus-like.
_______________--club-shaped, reproductive structure in which club fungi produce spores.
_______________--network of hyphae and plant roots that helps plants absorb water and minerals from soil.
_______________--round spore case of a zygote fungus.
______________--temporary cytoplasmic extensions used by some protists to move about and trap food.
_______________--mass of many-celled, threadlike tubes forming the body of a fungus.
_______________--organism made up of a fungus and a green alga or a cyanobacterium.
_______________--waterproof reproductive cell of a fungus that can grow into a new organism; in plants, haploid cells produced in the gametophyte stage that can divide by mitosis to form plant structures or an entire new plant or can develop into sex cells.
