protist, plant, fungi vocabulary

Question 1

Protist

Answer 1

Protist is an informal term for any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant or fungus.

Question 2

Heterotroph

Answer 2

A heterotroph is an organism that cannot fix carbon from inorganic sources but uses organic carbon for growth.

Question 3

Eukaryote

Answer 3

A eukaryote is any organism whose cells contain a nucleus and other organelles enclosed within membranes.

Question 4

Decomposer

Answer 4

an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

Question 5

Parasite

Answer 5

an organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host’s expense.

Question 6

Host

Answer 6

an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

Question 7

Fungi

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A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes unicellular microorganisms such as yeasts and molds

Question 8

Spore

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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.

Question 9

Lichen

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A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae and/or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship.

Question 10

Nonvascular plant

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Non-vascular plants are plants without a vascular system consisting of xylem and phloem

Question 11

Vascular plant

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Vascular plants, also known as tracheophytes and also higher plants, form a large group of plants that are defined as those land plants that have lignified tissues for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant

Question 12

Gymnosperm

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The gymnosperms are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophytes

Question 13

Angiosperm

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The flowering plants, also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants

Question 14

Photosynthesis

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is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce

Question 15

Cellular respiration

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is the process by which the chemical energy of “food” molecules is released and partially captured in the form of ATP.

Question 16

Transpiration

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is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves

Question 17

Tropism

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the turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.

Question 18

Gravitropism

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is a turning or growth movement by a plant or fungus in response to gravity.

Question 19

Phototropism

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the orientation of a plant or other organism in response to light, either toward the source of light

Question 20

Asexual Reproduction

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offspring arise from a single organism

Question 21

Toxoplasmosis

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A disease that results from infection with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite.

Question 22

Malaria

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A disease caused by a plasmodium parasite, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.

Question 23

Giardia

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An intestinal infection caused by a giardia parasite.