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Fungus-like Protists
Protists Test
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Biology
9th Grade
11/18/2014

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Fungus-like protists
Definition
prtists that feed off dead organic matter but have centrioles and lack chitin in there cell walls
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Characteristics of fungus like protists
Definition

1. Live in damp watery places

2. are small

3. Help to break down dead organic materials

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Slime mold
Definition
fungus-like protists that play a key part in recycling organic material
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Cellular Slime Molds (Acraisomycota)
Definition
slime molds whose individual cells remain separated during every phase of the mold's life cycle
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Acellular Slime molds (myxomycota)
Definition
slime mold that passes through a stage in which its cells fuse to form large cells with many nuclei
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Pasmodium
Definition
stucture with many nuclei formed by acelluar slime molds
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fuiting bodies
Definition
structures that produce spores to be distributed by animals
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spores
Definition
haploid reproductive cell that produces gametes
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Water molds (oomycota)
Definition
fungus-like protists that thrive on dead or decaying organic material in water
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