L.S. Ch. 8 Vocabulary Test

Long, thin whiplike structure that helps organisms move through moist or wet surroundings.

• flagellum

• basidium

• spore

• ascus

One or many-celled eukaryotic organism that can be plant-like, animal-like, or fungus-like.

• cilia

• pseudopod

• fungus

• protist

Form of asexual reproduction in which a new, genetically identical organism forms on the side of its parent.

• flagellum

• regeneration

• fission

• budding

One-celled, animal -like protist that can live in water, soil, and living and dead organisms.

• lichen

• protozoan

• hyphae

• sporangium

Saclike, spore-producing structure of sac fungi.

• sporangium

• algae

• ascus

• flagellum

Chlorophyll-containing, plantlike protists that produce oxygen as a result of photosynthesis.

• hyphae

• algae

• spore

• mycorrhizae

In protists, short, threadlike structures that extend from the cell membrane of a ciliate and enable the organism to move quickly.

• saprophyte

• budding

• flagellum

• cilia

Organism made up of a fungus and green alga or a cyanobacterium.

• lichen

• protist

• ascus

• cilia

Organism that uses dead organisms as a food source and helps recycle nutrients so they are available for use by other organisms.

• protozoan

• saprophyte

• basidium

• pseudopod

Club-shaped, reproductive structure in which club fungi produce spores.

• algae

• sporangium

• mycorrhizae

• basidium