Protist Crossword

2. Types of fungi include ____________, molds, mildews, mushrooms and organisms that are similar.
5. There are three different kinds of protists: ___________, plant-like and fungi-like.
8. Plant-like protists use this for sensing light and dark. Used for photosynthesis, synthesis and respiration in general.
12. Fungi-like protists use this for respiration (HINT: starts with letter "D" and ends with letter "N:)
14. Fungi-like protists take food by absorbing small molecules from the outside _____________.
17. Plant-like protists are also called ____________.
18. Animal-like protists cannot make their own food. This makes them ________________.
20. Animal-like protists can move with pseudopods, ________, and flagella.
21. In animal-like protists, excretion is _______________. Also, the products of protein metabolism are released as ammonia.
22. Fungi-like protists cannot physically move, but they can __________. (HINT: starts with letter "g" and ends with letter "w")
24. In animal-like protists, the protist can find a ____________ organism where it is engulfed with a mouth-like aperture that ingests them.
25. Animal-like protists respirate by gas exchange of ________ into carbon dioxide.
26. When fungi-like Protists grow and develop, they use ___________ reproduction to let one cell grow, then divide to make 2 protists.

1. Fungi-Like protists help in the process of the hydrogen cycle, and they help to decompose _________.
3. Fungi-like protists are _______________, meaning they have cells with a nucleus.
4. Animal-like protists are also ______________. They consist of single cells.
6. Plant-like protists are the basis for the ___________ food chain.
7. In plant-like protists, reproduction takes place when the protists release eggs into the enviornment. There the ____________ will fertilize the egg.
9. Plant-like protists are autotrophic,which means they can make their own food. Also, they can make food from ________________.
10. Plant-like protists can be broken down into: chrysophytes,diatoms,dinoflagellates and ________________.
11. fission In animal-like protists, ________ takes place in reproduction, along with fragementation and conjugation.
13. When fungi-like protists synthesize, they use their own organic compounds using ______ as its energy source.
15. Animal-like protists get nutrition by consuming other organisms or bits of ______________ matter.
16. For ____________ protozoans, excretion is made possible when carbon dioxide, ammonia, and mineral salts are diffused into the enviornment.
19. When meiosis takes place in fungi-like protists, and it results in the splitting of _________ spores.
23. Plant-like protists use this whiplike tail to travel.
27. Animal-like protists __________ nutrition into their bodies from the outside enviornment.