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- 3. A rod-shaped prokaryotic cell.
- 6. A pore surrounded by guard cells in the epidermis of a leaf.
- 8. Any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal, or fungus.
- 11. A protest that lives primarily by ingesting food, a heterotrophic, animal-like protest.
- 12. A type of plant that lacks xylem and phloem; a nonvascular plant.
- 13. An organism characterized by prokaryotic cells.
- 17. A pollen-producing part of a flower, consisting of a stalk(filament) and an anther.
- 18. An RNA molecule that functions as an enzyme.
- 19. The collection of genes of individual microbial species present in a particular environment.
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- 1. A spherical prokaryotic cell.
- 2. The densely branched network of hyphae in a fungus.
- 4. The multicellular diploid form in the life cycle of organisms undergoing alternation of generations; results from a union of gametes and meiotically produces haploid spores that grow into the gametophyte generation.
- 5. The multicellular haploid form in the life cycle of organisms undergoing alternation of generations; results from a union of spores and mitotically produces haploid gametes that unite and grow into the sporophyte generation.
- 7. A mutually beneficial symbiotic association of a plant root and fungus.
- 9. One of two prokaryotic domains of life.
- 10. The egg-producing part of a flower, consisting of a stalk with an ovary at the base and a stigma, which traps pollen, at the tip.
- 14. A flowering plant, which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary.
- 15. A naked-seed plant. Its seed is said to be naked because it is not enclosed.
- 16. The community of microorganisms that live in and on the body of an animal.
- 17. An interaction between organisms of different species in which one species, the symbiont, lives in or on another species, the host.