Vocabulary # 5 -Protist and Fungi

1. protozoan: Are one celled animal like organisms with a nucleus.

2. cilia: Are short, hairlike parts on the surface of the cell.

3.  sporozoan: Are protozoans that reproduce by forming spores.

4. spore: Are special cells that develop into new organisms.

5. algae: Are plantlike protists.

6. multicellular: Means that an organism has many different cells that do certain jobs for the organism.

7. slime mold: Are funguslike protists that are consumers.

8. hyphae: The bodies of most fungi are made of a network of threadlike structure.

9.spoangium fungi: Are fungi that produce spores in sporangia.

10. sporangia: Are structures, found on the tips of hyphae, that makes spores.

11. club fungi: Fungi with club shaped parts that produce spores called club fungi.

12. sac fungi: Produce spores in saclike structures.

13. budding: Is reproduction in wich a small part of the parent grows into a new organism.

14. mutualism: A living arrangement in which both organisms benefit is called mutualism.

15. lichen: Is a fungus and an organism with chlorophyll that live together.