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| Protists considered to be animal-like because they're capable of movement |
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| Protists considered to be plant like because they're photosynthetic |
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| Protists considered to be fungus-like because they are not capable of movement or photosynthesis |
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| Not able to produce it's own food; feeding on other organisms |
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| Having locomotive structures, like flagella, cilia, and pseudopods |
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| Relatively long, hair-like projections |
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| Short, hair-like projections |
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| Photosynthetic, with chloroplasts |
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| Pouch lined by cilia, used by an organism to capture and ingest food |
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| Temporary digestive organelles |
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| Organelles of osmoregulation, usually controlling water balance |
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| Larger, polyploid nucleus in ciliates. |
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| External shells of calcium containing material |
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| Transparent, glass-like shells; fragile and fragmented, with pores for pseudopods |
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| Parasitic flagellates; may live in the blood of vertebrates |
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| Trypanosome causing African sleeping sickness; transmitted via tsetse fly |
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| Parasitic protist that lives within red blood cells and multiplies asexually until cell bursts |
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| Species of this genus can cause malaria; transmitted via mosquito |
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| Largest phylum of algae, comprised of green algae |
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| Colonial form of algae, composed of long, interwoven, irregularly disposed threads |
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| Colonial form of algae comprised of simple vegatative bodies without roots, stems, or leaves |
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| Green algae, such as those in the genus Chlamydomonas, which is capable of movement and is unicellular |
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| Process in eukaryotic organisms involving meiosis and syngamy |
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| Gametic fusion, consisting of plasmogamy and karyogamy |
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| Fusion of cell parts other than nucleus |
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| Haploid predominant sexual reproductive pattern; syngamy produces a diploid zygote, which undergoes meiosis to form haploid offspring |
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| Gametes are identically sized |
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| Sexual reproduction pattern where syngamy immediately follows meiosis; diploid predominance |
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| Also known as alternation of generations; Sexual reproduction pattern where a haploid gametophyte produces gametes by mitosis and the diploid sporophyte forms meiospores by meiosis |
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| Form of colonial algae with flagella or cilia for motility |
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| Form of colonial algae that is sessile |
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| Body of a plant-like protist |
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| Isomorphic Alternation of Generations |
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| Haploid and diploid phases are morphologically identical |
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| Having a large, nonmotile egg and a small, motile sperm |
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| Female gametangia of oogamic protists |
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| Male gametangia in oogamic protists |
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| Zygote forming from the fusion of a sperm and an egg, which then undergoes meiosis to produce four motile meiospores |
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| Protist in the phylum Bacilliariophyta; important members of the phytoplankton |
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| Walls of diatoms, composed of silica and consisting of two halves (valves)that fit like parts of a petri dish |
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| Phylum Phaeophyta, such as kelp |
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| Major mass of brown algae |
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| Root-like structure in brown algae |
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| Phylum Rhodophyta; large multicellular marine algae |
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| Naked mass of streaming protoplasm |
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| Stalked fruiting structure produced from Plasmodial Slime Molds |
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| A reproductive cell capable of developing into a new individual without fusion with another reproductive cell |
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