vocabulary#5

Vocabulary #5 Protist and Fungi

protozoan: one-celled animal-like organism with a nucleus.



cilia: short hair like part on the surfice of the cell.

sporonzoans: protozoans that reproduce by forming spores.

spores: special cells that develop into new organisim.

algea: plantlike protist.

multicellular: means that an organism has many different cells that do not certain jobs for the organism.

slime mold: fungus like protist that are consumers.

hyphae: network of threadlike structure most fungi are made up.

sporangium fungi: fungi that produce spores in sporangia.

sporangia: structure on the tips of hyphae that make spores.

club fungi :fungi with club-shaped parts that produce spores.

sac fungi:produce spores in saclike structures.

budding: reproduction in with small part of the parent grows into a new organism.

mutualism: arrangement in wich both organism are benefit.

lichen: a fungus and an organism with chlorophyll living thogether.

vocabulary #4

Vocabulary #4 Viruses and Monerans

1.Virus: a chromosome-like part surrounded by a protein coat.

2.host: an organism that provides food for a parasite.

3.parasite: an organism that lives in or on another living thing and get food from it.

4.interferon: a chemical substance that interferes with the way viruses reproduce.

5.vaccine: Substances made from weakened or dead viruses that protect you against certain deseases.

6.bacteria: Very small one-celled monerans.

7.colony: a group of similar cells growing next to each other that do not depend on each other.

8.capsule: a sticky outer layer produced by bacteria.

9.flagellum: a whiplike thread used for movement by bacteria.

10.fission: the process of one organism dividing into two organism.

11.asexual raproduction: the reproducing of a living thing from only one parent.

12.endospore: a thick-walled structure that forms inside a bacterial cell.

13.saprophyte:  organism that used dead materials for food.

14.decomposer: living things that get their food from breaking down dead matter into simple chemical.

15.koch´s postilates: stept for proving that a desease is caused by a certain microscopic organism.

16.communicable disease: those that can be passed from one organism to another.

17.antibiotic: chemical substance that kill or slow the growth of bacteria.

18.biotechnology: the use of living things to solve practical problems.

19.pasteurization: the process of heating milk to kill harmfull bacteria.

20.blue-green bacteria: samll one-celled morenans that contain chlorophyll and can make their own food.