Mazeikas Biology - Chapter 21
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cmmazeikas on November 17, 2011
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Mazeikas Biology 5th Hour, Mazeikas Biology 4th Hour, Mazeikas Biology 3rd hour
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pseudopod | unicellular protists move by changing their shape, a process that makes use of cytoplasmic projections |
| cilium | short and numerous, and they move somewhat like oars on a boat |
| flagellum | relatively long and usually number only one or two per cell |
| spore | in prokaryotes, protists and fungi, any of a variety of thick-walled life cycle stages capable of surviving unfavorable conditions |
| conjugation | a process in which two organisms exchange gentic material |
| alternation of generations | complex sexual life cycle protists have in which they alternate between diploid and a haploid phase |
| sporangium | spore capsule in which haploid spores are produced by meiosis |
| algal bloom | an immediate increase in the amount of algae and other producers that results from a large input of a limiting nutrient |
| food vacuole | a small cavity in the cytoplasm that temporarily stores food |
| gullet | an indentation in one side of the organism |
| plasmodium | amoeboid feeding stage in the life cycle of a plasmodial slime mold |
| chitin | a polymer made of modified sugars that is also found in the external skeletons of insects |
| hypha | one of many long, slender filaments that makes up the body of a fungus |
| fruiting body | reproductive structure of a fungus that grows from the mycelium |
| mycelium | the mass of branching hyphae below that soil |
| lichen | a symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism |
| mycorrhiza | symbiotic association of plant roots and fungi |
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