Flashcards › From Bacteria to Plants Vocabulary 3

protozoan animal like protists pseudopods temporary bulges of the cell membrane that fill with cytoplasm, "false foot" contractile vacuole a structure that collects the extra water and then expels it from the cell cilia hairlike projections from cells that move with a wavelike pattern symbiosis the interaction of two species, have a close relationship where at least one of the species benefits mutualism when both partners benefit from living together, the relationship is a type of symbiosis spore is a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism algae plantlike protists pigments chemicals that produce color algal bloom the rapid growth of a population of algae red tides saltwater algal blooms eutrophication a process in which nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, build up in a lake or pond over time, causing an increase in the growth of algae hyphae are the branching threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of multicellular fungi fruiting bodies are reproductive hyphae that grow out of a fungus budding no spores are produced lichen consists of a fungus and either algae or autotrophic bacteria that also live together in a mutualism relationship Chapter 3 Vocabulary