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Kingdom Protista
Vocabulary for Chapter 11
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Biology
10th Grade
02/25/2009

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Term
Kingdom of eukaryotic organisms that are “like” other kingdoms but don’t really fit with them
Definition
Protist
Term
Animal-like protists
Definition
Protozoa
Term
Plant-like protists
Definition
Protophyta
Term
Fungus-like protists
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Protomycota
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Describes a group of organisms that live together as a unit but can live independently
Definition
Colonial
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Able to move
Definition
Motile
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A form of genetic sharing that is not true sexual reproduction
Definition
Conjugate
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A structure, similar to a seed, that allows many protists to become dormant and protected during times of environmental stress
Definition
Cyst
Term
Protozoa that move with pseudopods
Definition
Phylum Sarcodina
Term
Protozoa that move with cilia
Definition
Phylum Ciliophora
Term
Protozoa that are carried, always parasitic
Definition
Phylum Sporozoa
Term
Protozoa that move with flagella
Definition
Phylum Zoomastigina
Term
False feet
Definition
Pseudopodia
Term
A sarcodine with no shell
Definition
Amoeba sp.
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A sarcodine with a glass (silica) shell
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Radiolarian
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A sarcodine with a calcium carbonate shell
Definition
Foraminifer
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Fluid cytoplasm
Definition
Endoplasm
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Cytoplasm that is stiff or viscous
Definition
Ectoplasm
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“Cell eating”; when a small particle or cell is engulfed by a larger cell
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Phagocytosis
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To move via pseudopodia
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Amoeboid movement
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Response to stimuli
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Taxes/ taxis
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Blood and pus and diarrhea
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Dysentery
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Tiny hairs used for movement
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Cilia
Term
Stiff but flexible outer cell covering
Definition
Pellicle
Term
Slipper shaped ciliate that has an oral groove, macro and micro nuclei and large contractile vacuoles
Definition
Paramecium sp.
Term
Giant ciliate that looks like a trumpet
Definition
Stentor sp.
Term
Ciliate that has a narrow stalk and a cup-shaped top with a collar of cilia
Definition
Vorticella sp.
Term
This is used for cellular work and contains DNA
Definition
Macronucleus
Term
This is exchanged during conjugation; it’s a smaller collection of DNA
Definition
Micronucleus
Term
Funnels food into the mouth pore on a ciliate
Definition
Oral groove
Term
Small opening through which food enters the ciliate cell
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Mouth pore
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Similar to the throat; channels food into a vacuole inside a ciliate
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Gullet
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This small opening releases wastes from a ciliate
Definition
Anal pore
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This stretchable “container” regulates water and fluid levels inside a ciliate
Definition
Contractile vacuole
Term
The Sporozoan that causes malaria
Definition
Plasmodium sp.
Term
Blood disease carried by the Anopheles sp. mosquito
Definition
Malaria
Term
The carrier of a disease
Definition
Vector
Term
Made from a special tree’s bark, this is a chemical that can control malaria in a person
Definition
Quinine
Term
Whip-like structure used to move a cell
Definition
Flagella
Term
Zoomastagina that cause African sleeping sickness
Definition
Trypanosoma sp.
Term
A disease that is carried by the tsetse fly
Definition
Sleeping sickness
Term
The vector for sleeping sickness
Definition
Tsetse fly
Term
Hiker’s disease
Definition
Giardia lamblia
Term
Causes diarrhea; contracted by drinking contaminated water from a stream, pond or lake
Definition
Hiker’s disease
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Plant-like protists
Definition
Algae
Term
The base unit of protophyta
Definition
Thallus
Term
Used to hold some algae to their substrate
Definition
Holdfast
Term
Reproduction from broken pieces of an algae
Definition
Fragmentation
Term
Haploid cells that are neither male or female
Definition
Isogametes
Term
Male and female haploid cells
Definition
Heterogametes
Term
Green algae that have no cell wall, just a pellicle
Definition
Phylum Euglenophyta
Term
Eyespot
Definition
Stigma
Term
Green algae that have a cell wall and include unicellular and multicellular/ filament examples
Definition
Phylum Chlorophyta
Term
Filamentous Chlorophyta with a spiral of chloroplasts
Definition
Spirogyra sp.
Term
Tiny Chlorophyta with two flagella
Definition
Chlamydomonas sp.
Term
Small Chlorophyta with two parts that are mirror images
Definition
Desmid sp.
Term
Golden algae that store food as oil
Definition
Phylum Chrysophyta
Term
The diatoms; this group produces much of the oxygen in our atmosphere
Definition
Phylum Bacillariophyta
Term
Small algae that have glass shells and can be used in filters
Definition
Diatom
Term
Powdery soil that is made of diatom shells
Definition
Diatomaceous earth
Term
The shell of a diatom
Definition
Test
Term
Brown Algae
Definition
Phylum Phaeophyta
Term
Rockweed
Definition
Fucus sp.
Term
30 -100 foot long seaweed
Definition
Kelp sp.
Term
A type of brown algae that is found floating in a huge mass in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Definition
Sargassum sp.
Term
A gelatinous material made from kelp
Definition
Algin
Term
This structure on brown algae that helps keep it floating vertical
Definition
Airbladder
Term
The red algae
Definition
Phylum Rhodophyta
Term
A gelatinous material made from red algae
Definition
Carrageenan
Term
These unicellular algae cause red tides
Definition
Phylum Dinoflagellates
Term
Poisonous occurance caused by algal bloom of dinoflagellates
Definition
Red-tide
Term
An unusual over-growth of algae
Definition
Algal bloom
Term
This structure produces spores in fungi
Definition
Fruiting-body
Term
A seed-like structure made by fungi
Definition
Spore
Term
A protein found in the cell wall of normal fungi; absent in protomycota
Definition
Chitin
Term
Water molds and blights
Definition
Phylum Oomycota
Term
Aquatic decomposer
Definition
Water mold
Term
Plant fungus
Definition
Blight
Term
Cellular slime molds
Definition
Phylum Acrasiomycota
Term
Plasmodial slime molds
Definition
Phylum Myxomycota
Term
Amorphous gathering of loosely connected cells
Definition
Plasmodial
Term
To have no shape
Definition
Amorphous
Term
Yellow myxomycotan that likes to consume oats
Definition
Physarum sp.
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