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| Any organism that is not a plant. |
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| temporary projection of cytoplasm, or a "false foot" used by some protists for feeding or movement. |
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| Type of locomotion used by amoebas. |
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| A small cavity in the cytoplasm that temporarily stores food. |
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| Short hairlike projection similar to a flagellum: produces movement in many cells. |
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| Very small, bottle-shaped structures used for defense. |
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| The larger of a ciliate's two muclei, contains multiply copies of most of the genes that the cell needs in its day-to-day existence. |
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| The smaller of a ciliate's two nuclei; contains a "reserve copy" of all of the cell's genes. |
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| Indentation in one side of the ciliate that allows food to enter the cell. |
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| Region of the cell membrane of a ciliate where waste-containing food vacuoles fuse and are then emptied into the environment. |
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| Cavities in the cytoplasm that are specialized to collect water.l |
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| Form of sexual reproduction in which paramecia and some prokaryotes exchanges genetic information. |
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| compound other than chlorophyll that absorb light at different wavelengths that chlorophyll. |
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| Helps the organism find sunlight to power photosynthesis. |
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| Cell membrane in euglenas. |
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| Population of algae and other small photosynthetic organisms found near the surface of the ocean and forming part of plankton. |
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| Are especially good at absorbing blue light, enabling red algae to live deeper in the ocean than many other photosynthetic algae. |
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| In algae, a long threadlike colony formed by many green algae: in plants, a long thin structure that supports an anther. |
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| Alternation of Generations |
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| Process in which many algae switch back and fort between haploid and diploed stages of their life cycles. |
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| Haploid, or gamete-producing, phase of an organism. |
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| Haploid reproductive cell. |
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| diploid, or spore-producing, phase of an organism. |
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| Slime mold whose individual cells remain separated during every phase of the mold's life. |
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| Slime mold that passes through a stage in which its cells fuse to form large cells with many nuclei. |
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| Slender reproductive structure that produces spores and is found in some fungus like protiests; reproductive structure of fungus that develops from a mycelium. |
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| Structure with many nuclei formed by acellular slime molds. |
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| Tiny filament that makes up a multi cellular fungus or a water mold. |
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| Male reproductive structure i some algae and plants. |
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| Specialized structure formed by hyphae that produces female nuclei. |
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