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Protists
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A key characteristic of protists is that at some point during their life cycles they must include
A type of protist characterized by great flexibility and the presence of psuedopods
A protist is any .... organism (one with cells containing a nucleus) that is not an animal, plant or fungus.
Holds the chlorophyll and needed for photosynthesis
chloroplast
Amoebas anchor to nearby surfaces using extensions of cytoplasm called:
test
flagella
cilia
pseudopods
The side-by-side reproduction of two paramecia where nuclear material is exchanged is called
mating
asexual reproduction
conjugation
dating
Paramecia use .... to remove excess water from the cell.
A protist that has single flagellum to move itself and can obtain its nutrients by photosynthesis:
Sporozoa
Amoeba
Hydra
Euglena
An area on a protist that is sensitive to the amount of light in the environment
Eye Spot
Vacuole
Nucleus
Flagelum
A colony of green algae, resembling a hollow ball:
Euglea
Volvox
Dinobryon
Amoeba
A part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction:
Nucleus
An organism that cannot make it's own food and eats other things:
Storage of food in a protist is called:
pseudopod
nucleus
food vacuole
flagelum
A long, whiplike structure that helps a cell to move:
flagelum
A hairlike projections that extend from the plasma membrane and are used for movement:
Cilla