Protist and Fungus Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. A sticky polysaccharide that covers the cell walls of certain species of red algae. This is also used in the food industry to manipulate the texture of many food products.
  2. 7. Big, rounded cytoplasmic extensions that operate both in movement and feeding.
  3. 8. A symbiotic partnership between fungi and plant roots.
  4. 10. Small, unicellular fungi whose colonies are similar to that of bacteria.
  5. 13. Some species of Dinoflagellates that undergo the creation of light by means of a chemical reaction.
  6. 16. Single-celled or uncomplicated multicellular eukaryotic organisms that usually do not categorize into any other kingdom.
  7. 19. Asexual spores made by basidia.
  8. 21. Autotrophic protists.
  9. 23. In members of the phylum Zygomycota, a sexual structure that is made by the blend of two gametangia and that has one or more zygotes that emerged from the fusion of gametes produced by the gametangia.
  10. 24. In fungi, a reproductive operation where septate hypha dry and shatter. Individual cells that act as spores are then set free.
  11. 25. In prokaryotes and protists, the movement approaching or away from a chemical stimulus, like the migration toward food or away from a toxin.
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  1. 1. Flagellated unicellular algae in the phylum Euglenophyta.
  2. 2. A gel-like polysaccharide compound used for culturing microbes. It is derived from certain red algae.
  3. 3. Merozoites in the blood cells that advance into the sexual forms of the parasite.
  4. 5. A mass of cells made by a fungus in symbiosis with a photosynthetic participant. They usually grow on nutrient-poor surfaces.
  5. 6. The infective stage of the plasmodial life cycle, when it corrupts the red blood cells of the host organism.
  6. 9. A sexual reproductive construction that includes a nucleus of a mating type.
  7. 11. A pigment that takes in light energy and turns it into chlorophyll.
  8. 12. Asexual spores made in certain fungi.
  9. 14. Fungi that develop in the form of a disordered mass of filaments.
  10. 15. A structure of a basidiomycete that produces sexual spores.
  11. 17. Structures that produce asexual spores in basidiomycetes.
  12. 18. Sporozoans that have been released from the oocyst and are ready to invade a new host cell.
  13. 20. A population increase of specific marine dinoflagellates that provoke the water to turn a red or red-brown color and to contain poisonous alkaloids made by the dinoflagellates.
  14. 22. Unicellular algae that have a double shell that have silica.