| A | B |
| eukaryotic | cell with a nucleus & membrane-bound organelles |
| unicellular | one celled |
| autotroph | organism that can make its own food |
| heterotroph | organism that must get its food from other sources |
| conjugation | type of sexual reproduction where organisms exchange DNA |
| binary fission | type of asexual reproduction where organism splits in two |
| movement | how animal-like protists are classified |
| multicellular | many celled with the cells organized into tissues |
| colonial | many celled organism but there are no tissues |
| decomposers | one role that protists & fungi play in the environment |
| symbiosis | arrangement where two organisms live together & help each other out |
| red tides | algal bloom caused by overproduction of dinoflagellates |
| mycorrhizae | symbiotic relationship between fungi & plant roots |
| non-motile | not able to move |
| hyphae | thread like filaments that make up body of fungi |
| septa | openings in cell wall between neighboring fungal cells |
| mycelium | mass of hyphae that forms the fungal body |
| rhizoids | rootlike structures made of hyphae in fungi |
| chitin | complex carbohydrate that makes the cell wall of fungi cells |
| saprophyte | organism that absorbs nutrients from dead/dying organisms |