Across
- 2. organism that breaks down dead organic matter
- 5. virus that reproduces when their nucleic acid becomes part of the host's genome
- 8. a short, hair-like flagellum
- 10. filaments of fungi
- 11. an extensive bloom of phytoplankton
- 15. a photosynthetic organism that lives on algae or plants
- 16. use the sun to make energy
- 19. an organism from a microscopic domain
- 22. the silicious, box-like cell well of diatoms
- 23. lacking oxygen
- 25. outer protein coat of virus
- 26. virus that infects bacteria
- 28. cyanobacteria that burrow into rocks and coral
- 29. virus that contains RNA instead of DNA
- 30. organic matter that is dissolved in water rather than being in particles
Down
- 1. use chemicals to make energy
- 3. the resistant stage of diatoms that restores the maximum size characteristic to the species
- 4. bacteria that carry out decomposition
- 6. one of a group of yellow, orange, and red plant pigments
- 7. made of calcium carbonate
- 9. the organism that results from the symbiosis of a fungus and an alga
- 12. type of earth derived from the skeletons of diatoms
- 13. a sudden increase in the abundance of an alga or phytoplankton
- 14. conversion of nitrogen gas to usable nitrogen for autotrophs
- 17. the test of a ciliate
- 18. non-cellular particles containing DNA/RNA that infect other living cells
- 20. the calcium carbonate "shell" of marine protozoans
- 21. a thin or blunt extension of the cytoplasm
- 24. an inert or resting stage of a dinoflagellate
- 27. a photosynthetic organism that lives within the cells or tissue of plants/algae