Protists

What is the smallest unit of life?

Cells

What is essential for maintaining the internal equilibrium of protists?

Homeostasis

What process enables protists to engulf nutrients and other materials?

Endocytosis

What type of organism consists of only 1 cell?

Unicellular

What type of organism consists of many cells?

Multicellular

What is an organism that makes its own food by photosynthesis called?

Autotroph

What do we call an organism that eats other organisms for food?

Heterotroph

What is the semi-permeable barrier that encloses all cells?

Cell membrane

What is the impermable barrier in plant and fungi cells that provides stability and structure?

Cell wall

What is a whip-like tail used for movement?

Flagella

What are tiny wiggling hairs that provide movement called?

Cilia

What is a fake foot used by some cells to move?

Pseudopod

What is a dormant cell that can develop into a replica of the parent cell called?

Spore

What is the process in which a parent cell splits into two identical daughter cells?

Binary fission

What type of cell has a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles?

Eukaryotic

What type of cell lacks a nucleus?

Prokaryotic