plants animals and fungi Flashcards
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an organism that belong to the kingdom protista
protist
an organism that gets food by eating other orginsims or their byproducts and that cannot make organic compounds from inorganic materials
heterotroph
an organism made up of cells that have a nucleus enclosed by a membrane Eukaryotas include animals plants and fungi but not not archaebactirea or eubacteria
Eukaryote
an organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead orginsims or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients
decomposer
an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host’s expense.
parasites
an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.
host
any of a group of unicellular, multicellular, or syncytial spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools.
fungi
a minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans.
spore
a simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crust like, leaf like, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees.
lichen
plants without a vascular system
non vascular plant
the thick-walled resting cell of certain fungi and algae, arising from the fusion of two similar gametes.
qymospore
a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel
angiosperm
he process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
photosynthisis
is what cells do to break up sugars into a form that the cell can use as energy.
cellular resperation
is the process where plants absorb water through the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves.
transpiration
the turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.
tropism
an intermittent and remit tent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells. The parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes in many tropical and subtropical regions.
malaria
infection is an intestinal infection marked by abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea and bouts of watery diarrhea.
giardia
a disease caused by toxoplasmas, transmitted chiefly through under cooked meat, or in soil or cat feces.
toxoplasmosios
is a type of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, and inherit the genes of that parent only;
asexual reproduction
the orientation of a plant or other organism in response to light, positive or neagitive
phototrpism
is a turning or growth movement by a plant or fungus in response to gravity.
gravitropism
