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| a sac like case in which sexual spores are formed by members of the fungus phylum ascomycetes |
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| a member of the fungus phylum ascomycota whose members form sexual spores as saclike case known as an ascus |
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| archegonium(plural, archigonia) |
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| a structure in which female sex cell are produced; found in nonvascular plants and certain seedless vascular plants |
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| antheridum(plural, antheridia) |
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| a structure in which male sex cells are produced; found in nonvascular plant and certain seedless vascular plants |
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| a flowering vascular plant |
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| alternation of generations |
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| a life cycle, typical of plants, in which a diploid saprophyte (spore-producing) generation alternates with a haploid gametophyte (gamete-producing) generation |
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| a member of the protist clade, includes mostly parasitic single celled eukaryote such as plasmodium, which causes malaria in humans, part of a larger group known as aveolates |
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| a protists clade generally lack shells and move by extending psuedopods; include lobose amoebas and the slime molds |
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| an amoebozoan protist that uses characterist streaming mode of locomotion by extending a cellular projection called psuedopod |
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| characterized by a system of sacs beneath the cell membrane includes, cilliates, dinoflagellates, and apicomplexans |
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| any photosynthetic protist |
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| a type of organism that forms a multinucleate structure that crawls in amoebodic matter, members of protist clade amoebozoa |
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| on of lifes three domains, consists of prokaryotes that are only distantly related to members of the domain bacteria |
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| an organism that can live and grow in the absence of oxygen |
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| basidium(plural, basidia) |
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| a diploid cell, typically club-shaped formed by members of the fungus phylum Basidiomycota; produced by meosis |
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| members of its phylum incude speces that produce sexual spores in club-shaped cells known as basidia |
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| the use of organisms to remove or detoxify toxic substances in the environment |
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| a community of prokaryotes of one or more species in which they secrete and are embedded in slime that adheres to a surface |
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| the process by which a single bacteria divides in half, producing two identical offspring |
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| a virus that specifically infects bacteria |
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| one of the 3 domains of living organisms only distantly related to the members of Archae |
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| a type of organism consisting of individual ameobid cells that can aggregate to form a sluglike mass, which in turn forms a fruiting body, members of the protist clade ameobozoans |
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| in prokaryotes, the transfer of DNA from one cell to another viz temporary connection; in single-celled eukaryotes the mutual exchange of genetic information between two temporarily joined cells |
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| a fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, whose members (including mushrooms, puffballs, and shelf fungus) reproduce by means of basidiospores |
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| phylum includes species with flagellated swimming spores |
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| a waxy or fatty covering on the surface of above ground epidermal cells of many land plants; aids in the retention of water |
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| a member of a gorup of nonflowering vascular plants whose members reproduce by means of seeds formed inside cones; retain its green leaves year long |
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| a short hair like motile projection from the surface of certain eukaryotic cells that contains microtubules, the movements of it propel the cells through fluid medium or more fluids over a stationary surface layer of cells |
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| a member of a protist group characterized by two nuclei and multiple flagellum, include disease causing parasites such as Gardia are a part of a larger group known as excavates |
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| a member of the protist group characterized by cillia and a complex unicellular structure, part of a larger group known as the aveolates |
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| a member of a group of protists that includes photosynthetic forms in which two flagellum project through armor-like plates, can produce "red tides", part of a larger group known as the avelotes |
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| a member of a protist group that includes photosynthetic forms with two part glassy outer coverings; important organisms in fresh and salt water, part of a larger group known as stramenopiles |
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| a protective resting structure of some rod-shaped bacteria that withstands unfavorable environmental conditions |
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| a member of a protist group characterized by one or more whip like flagellum, which are used for locomotion and by a photoreceptor which detects light, are photosynthetic |
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| a protist clade characterized by the mitochondrial membranes that appear under the microscope to be shaped like a stack of disks include euglenids and kinetoplastids |
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| a protist clade which generally lack mitochondria, include the diplomonads and parabasilids |
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| in flowering plants, the ripend ovary which contains seeds |
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| the reproductive structure of an angiosperm plant |
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| a long hair like motile extention of the plasma membrane in eukaryotic cells it contains microtubules, can propel some cells through fluid |
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| a member of a protist group characterized by psuedopods and elaborate calium carbonate shells, generally aquatic, part of a larger group known as the rhizarians |
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| the muticellular haploid stage in the life cycle of plants |
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| phylum inculdes species that form mycorrhizal associations with plant roots and that form bush shaped branching structures inside plant cells |
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| a nonflowering seed plant, such as a conifer, gnetophyte, cycad, or ginkgo |
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| the prey organisms on or in which a parasite lives is harmed by the relationship |
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| in fungi, a thredlike structure that consists of elongated cells, typically with many haploid nuclei, makes up the fungal body |
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| a member of the protist group characterized by distinctive structured mitochondria. mostly flagellated and some are parasitic such as trypanosoma, which causes african sleeping sickness, part of a larger group known as euglenozoans |
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| a sybiotic association between alga or cyanobacteria and a fungus, resulting in a composite organism |
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| a hard material that is embedded in the cell walls of vascular plants and that provides support in the terrestrial species, and early and important adaptation to life on land |
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| a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a land plant that facillitates mineral extraction and absorption |
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| the body of a fungus consisting of a mass of hyphae |
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| a structure with in the ovary of a flower inside which a female gametophyte develops, after fertilization, develops into the seed |
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| a plant that lacks lignin and well developed conducting cessels, includes mosses hornwort, liverworts |
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| nitrogen fixing bacterium |
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| a bacterium that posesses the ability to remove nitrogen from the atmosphere and combine it with hydrogen to produce ammonium |
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| couple of producing disease; referring to n organism with such a capability |
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| a member of a protist group characterized by mutualistic or parasitic relationships with the animal species inside which they live, part of a larger group known as the excavates |
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| the male gametophytes of a seed plant |
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| an extension of plasma membrane by which certain cells, such as ameobas locomote and engulf prey |
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| an aggregation of individual ameobodic cells, such as ameobas, locomote and engulf prey |
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| use thin psuedopods to move and capture prey and which often have hard shells inculde the foramiferans and the radiolarians |
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| a member of a protist group characterised by psuedopods and typically elaborate scilia shells, largely aquatic and are part of a larger group known as rhizarians |
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| a member of the fungus phylum acsomycota whose members form spores in a sac like case called an ascus |
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| a partion that serperates the fungal hypha into individual cells, pores in the septa allow the transfer of materials between cells |
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| a structure in which spores are produced |
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in plant and fungi a haploid cell capable of dedveloping into an adult with out fusing with another cell
in bacteria and some other organisms a stage of the life cycle that is resistant to extreme environmental condition |
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| an adjustable opening in the epidermis of a leaf stem, surrounded by a pair of guard cells, that regulats the diffusion of carbon dioxide and water into and out of the leaf stem |
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| the multicellular diploid stage in the life cycle of a plant; produces haplod asexual spores through meosis |
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| the reproductive structure of a seed plant, protected by a seed coat; contains an embryonic plant and a supply of food for it |
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| characterized by hair like projections on their flagella, includes the water mold, the diatoms, the brown algae |
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| a plant that has conducting vessels for transporting liquids, also called a tracheophyte |
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| a noncellular parasitic particle that consists of a protein coat surrounding genetic material, mutiplies only with in a cell of living organisms |
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| a particle of RNA that is capable of infecting a cell and of directing the production of more viroids, responsible for certain plant disease |
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| a member of a protist group that included species with fillamentous shapes that give them a superficiall fungus like appearance, cause economicaly important plant disease, are part of a larger group known as stramenopiles |
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| a fungus of the phylum zygomycota includes the species that causes fruit rot and bread mold |
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| a non photosynthetic single celled protist |
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| a eukaryotic organism that is not a plant animal or fungus, the term encompases a diverse array of organisms and does not represent a monophyletic group |
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| a sluglike mass of cytoplasm cotaining thousand of nuclei that are not confined with in individual cells |
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| photosynthetic protists that are abundant in marine and freshwater enviornment |
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| a protein that in mutated form as an infectious agent that causes certain nuerodegenitive diseases including kuru and scarpie |
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| a small, cicurlar piece of DNA located inthe cytoplasm of many bacteria, usually does not carry genes required for the normal functionings of the bacterium, but many carry genes required for things such as antibiotic resistance |
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