Vocabulary # 5 Protist and Fungi

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 togehter .

Vocabulary # 4 Virus

Virus


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

Host: An organism that provides food for a parasite.







Parasite: An organism that lives in or on another living thing and get food from it.

Interferon: A chemical substance that interferes with the way viruses reproduce.

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

Bacteria: Very small one-celled monerans.

Colony: A group of similar cells growing next to each other that do not depend on each other.

Capsule: A sticky outer layer produced by bacteria.






Flagellum: A whiplike thread used for movement by bacteria.






Fission: The process of one organism dividing into two organism.






Asexual Reproduction: The reproducing of a living thing from only one parent.

Endospore: A thick-walled structure that forms inside a bacterial cell.

                                       
 Saprophyte: Organism that used dead materials for food.

Decomposer: Living things that get their food from breaking down dead matter into simple chemical.

koch´s Postilates: Stept for proving that a desease is caused by a certain microscopic organism.

Communicable Disease: Those that can be passed from one organism to another.

Antibiotic: Chemical substance that kill or slow the growth of bacteria.

biotechnology: The use of living things to solve practical problems.

pasteurization: The process of heating milk to kill harmfull bacteria.

Blue-green bacteria: Small  one-celled morenans that contain chlorophyll and can make their own food.



Vocabulary # 3

classify: to group things together based on similarities.

Trait : A featured that a thing has .

Kingdom : the largest group of living thing.

Phylum: the larger group within a kingdom.

class: The larger group within a phylum.
family:The larger group within class.
Genus:The larger group within a family.
Specie: The smallest group of living things.

Scientific Name: The genus and specie together.

Homo    Sapiens

Monera : One celled organism that dont have a nucleus.

Protist :  Mostly single - celled organism  that have a nucleus and cell part .



Plants: Organism that are made up of many cells, have chlorophylls, and can make their own food.

Fungi : Organism that have cell wall and absorb
 food from their surroundings .

Animal : Organism that have many cells , can not make their own food , and can move . 

Vocabulary # 2

Vocabulary # 2

Reproduce: To form offspring similar to the parents.

 

Development: All the changes that occur as a living thing grows.

 

Consumer:  Living things that eat, or consume, other living things

Producer: Living things that make, or produce, their own food.

Cellular respiration:  The process by which food is broken down and energy is released.

Cell: the basic unit of all living things

Adaptation:  A trait that can make living thing better able to survive.

Cell membrane:  The cell part that gives the cell shape and holds the cytoplasm.

Nucleus:   The cell part that controls most of the cells activities.

Nuclear membrane: a structure that surrounds the nucleus and separates it from the rest of the cell.

Nucleolus: the cell part that helps makes ribosome.

Chromosomes: cell parts with information that determines what traits a living thing will have.

Cytoplasm: the clear, jellylike material between the cell membrane and the nucleus that makes up most of the cell.

Ribosome: cell parts where proteins are made.

Mitochondria: cell parts that produce energy from food that has been digested.

Vacuole: a liquid-filled space that stores food, water, and minerals.

Centrioles: cell parts that help with cell reproduction.

Chloroplast: cell parts that contains the green pigment, chlorophyll.

Cell wall: the thick, outer covering outside the cell membrane.

Diffusion: The movement of a substance from when there is a large amount of it to where there is a small amount of it.

Osmosis: the movement of water across the cell membrane.

Tissue: A group of similar cells that work together to carry out a special job.

Organ: a group of tissue that work together to do a job.

Organ system: a group of organs that work together to do a certain of job.

Organism: A living things.

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