Organizing Living Things Ch.2

Property

A quality that describes an object

Organism

A living thing that can carry out all the basic life activities.

Biology

The study of living things.

Kingdom

One of the five groups into which living things are classified.

Algae

Proties that make their own food and usually live in water.

Microorganism

An orgaism that is to small to be seen without a microscope.

Protist

An organism that usally is one-celled and has plant-like or animal-like properties.

Protozoan

A protist that has amimal-like qualities

Cilia

hair like stuctuers that help some one celled organims move

decompse

to break down or decay matter into simpler substances

flagella

whip-like tails that help some-one celled organism is flagellum

fungus

an organism that usually has many cells and decomposes material for its food

Parasite

an orgaism that absorbs food from a living organism and harms it

pseudoped

part of some one-celled organism that sticks out like a foot to move the cell along

moneran

an organism that is one-celled and does not have organells