Across
- 1. Eukaryotes that are not members of the plant, animal, or fungi kingdoms
- 3. Polymer made of modified sugars that is also found in the external skeleton of insects
- 6. Conjugation/2 protists exchange genetic material
- 10. powered by actin in the cytoplasmic skeleton
- 11. An indentation in one side of the organism forcing objects into food vacuoles in ciliates
- 13. forms sporangia in slime molds in which meiosis produces haploid spores
- 15. Long, slender branching filaments making up the larger bodies of most fungi
- 18. many protists alternate between a haploid and diploid phase
- 20. What can cause serious diseases in plants and animals by disrupting homeostasis
Down
- 2. Lives in the digestive system of termites to help them process wood
- 4. what are some multicellular protists
- 5. Most phytoplankton are…
- 7. Also known as the reproductive structure, and grows from the mycelium
- 8. Water supplies contaminated by animal or human feces can spread protist parasites, causing deadly outbreaks of intestinal disease
- 9. mass of branching hyphae below the soil
- 12. Are most protists multicellular or unicellular
- 14. Structure that makes spores
- 16. small cavity in the cytoplasm that temporarily stores food in amoebas
- 17. Many protists are involved in mutualistic symbioses, in which they are their hosts both…
- 19. long and whip-like tails used like a tiny propeller