A | B |
Algae | chlorophyll-containing, plantlike protists that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis |
Ascus | the spores of a fungus |
Basidium | Club-shaped reproductive structure in which club fungi produce spores |
Budding | form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically –identical organism forms on the side of its parent |
Flagellum | Long, thin whip-like structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surroundings |
Hyphae | Mass of many –celled, threadlike tubes forming the body of a fungus |
Lichen | Organism made up of a fungus and a green alga or a cyanobacterium |
Mycorrhizae | network of hyphae and plant roots that helps plants absorbs water in minerals from soil |
Protist | one- or many-celled organisms that can be like plantlike, animal-like, or fungus-like |
Protozoan | one-celled, animal -like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms |
Pseudopod | temporary cytoplasmic extensions used by some protist to move about and trap food |
Saprophyte | organisms that use dead organisms as a food source and helps recycle nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms |
Sporangium | round spore case of a zygote fungus |
Spore | 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 sex cells |