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Protists and Fungi by CC:*)

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  • What important antibiotic did fungi help create?
    Penicillin
  • What do flagella, cilia, and pseudopods have in common?
    They aid in protists locomotion
  • Did protists or fungi cause the potato famine?
    Protists
  • Are fungi unicellular or multicellular?
    Both!
  • Name two ways that FUNGI are different from plants....
    Different cell walls, they are consumers, no chlorphyll!
  • Are fungi eukaryotes or prokaryotes?
    Eukaryotes
  • Are protists unicellular, multicellular, or both?
    Both!
  • Are fungi heterotrophs, autotrophs, or both?
    Heterotrophs!
  • What conditions do FUNGI need to grow and trhive and reproduce?
    MOISTure, Warmth, and a source of food (also darkness/dim light)
  • What are the three environments we find protists in?
    1) Water 2) Soil 3) Animals
  • The little microscopic shells in your toothpaste comes from.... (be specific)
    DIATOMS! a protist
  • What two organisms make up a LICHEN?
    A fungi and an ALGAE (protist!)
  • A Red Tide is contains this little organism that releases toxins into the water.... which one is it?
    ALGAE
  • Do fungi preform photosynthesis?
    No! They are heterotrophs and do not use the sunlight to create energy.
  • Name the three basic groups of FUNGI.
    Thread, club, sac-like
  • What is chitin?
    Chitin makes up the cell walls of fungi
  • What does the word PARASITISM mean?
    It means that one organism is harmed, the other benefits. Needs a HOST!
  • Autotrophic protists provide what important element through photosynthesis?
    Oxygen
  • What two organisms make up a SLIME MOLD?
    A FUNGI and an AMOEBA (protist)
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