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| Plant lacking roots, stem, and leaves |
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| a type of cell lacking membrane-bounded organelles |
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| cells with a membrane-bounded nucleus |
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| a long cylindrical extension of a eukaryotic cell, bounded by the plasma membrane and containing an axoneme; a motility organelle that is mainly involved in cell movement by means of water propulsion, but can perform additional functions, such as feeding, mating, and sensory perception |
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| cylindrical structure found at the base of a flagellum/cilium consisting of a continuation of the nine outer axonemal doublets (A,B) but with the addition of a C-microtubules to form triplets |
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| Fibrous roots (rhizoplasts): |
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| flagellar root composed of microfibrils that are often contractile |
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| appendage on a flagellum; colorless elongate cell |
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| flagellum without hairs on its surface |
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| a flagellum without hairs |
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| Tinsel flagellum (Pantonematic): |
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| flagellum with hairs attached to the surface |
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| cell with flagella of the same length |
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| cell with a ring of flagella at one pole |
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| having flagella of unequal length |
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| Intraflagellar transport: |
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| the bidirectional movement of particles along the length of the flagellum between the axoneme and the flagellar membrane |
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| polysaccharide composed of B-1,4 linked glucose molecules that forms the main skeletal frame-work of most algal cells |
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| polysaccharide composed of mannose residues |
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| polysaccharide composed of xylose sugar residues |
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| polysaccharide in the cell wall and mucilage of the brown algae composed of sulfated fucose units |
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| one or more polysaccharides containing sulfated galactose obtained from the walls of some red algae |
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| red algal polysaccharide (phycocolloid) similar to agar, but needing higher concentrations to form a gel |
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| Chromoplast (Chromophore): |
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| a chloroplast with some other color than green |
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| a small plastid that usually matures to a chloroplast or amyloplast |
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| colorless plastid usually having a large number of starch grains and few thylakoids |
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| a colorless plastid containing starch |
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| Chrloroplast endoplasmic reticulum: |
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| one or two membranes surrounding the chloroplast membrane |
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| membrane-bound sac in a plastid |
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| non-membranous part of a plastid |
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| an aggregation of phycobiliproteins on the surface of a theylakoid |
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| movement that is affected by the direction and intensity of light |
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| active movement of an organism in contact with a solid substrate where there is neither a visible organ responsible for the movement nor a distinct change in the shape of the organism |
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| fat-soluble, green, porphyrin-type pigment |
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| yellow, orange, or red hydrocarbon fat-soluble pigment |
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| oxygen-free, unsaturated, hydrocarbon carotenoid |
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| a carotenoid composed of an oxygenated hydrocarbon |
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| Phycobiliproteins (Phycobilin): |
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| water-soluble blue-green or pink pigment in the cyanobacteria, Rhodophyta, and Cryptophyta |
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| blue-green-colored phycobiliprotein |
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| a blue biliprotein obtained from cyanobacteria and red algae |
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| pink-colored phycobiliprotein |
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| red algal storage product composed of α-1,4 and α-1,6 linked glucose residues |
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| storage polysaccharide of the cyanobacteria, similar to glycogen |
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| storage polysaccharide composed of α-1,6 linked glucose residues |
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| food storage polysaccharide in the brown algae composed principally of B-1,3 linked glucose residues |
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| Chrysolaminarin (leucosin): |
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| a liquid polysaccharide storage product composed principally of B-1,3 linked residues of glucose |
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| storage polysaccharide composed of B-1,3 linked glucose molecules |
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| a polysaccharide composed of glucose |
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| contraction of a contractile vacuole; emptying |
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| filling of a contractile vacuole |
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| Autotroph (lithotrophic or holophytic): |
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| not needing an external source or organic compounds as an energy source. Energy is obtained from light or inorganic chemical reactions |
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| Heterotrophic (organotrophic): |
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| needing an external source of organic compounds as an energy source |
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| Photoautotrophic (photolithotrophic): |
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| term describing an autotrophic plant that obtains energy from photosynthesis |
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| Chemoautotrophic (chemolithotrophic): |
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| an organism that obtains energy from oxidation of reduced inorganic compounds, and cell carbon primarily from carbon dioxide |
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| Photoheterotrophic (photo-organotrophs): |
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| organism capable of using organic compounds as a source of carbon in the light but not in the dark |
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| term describing a heterotrophic organism that absorbs organic molecules in a soluble form |
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| heterotrophic organism living off dead material |
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| heterotrophic organism that derives nutrients from a living host |
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| Mixotrophic (facultative hetertrophic): |
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| photosynthetic organism capable of using organic compounds in the medium |
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