Protists

  • Cells= The smallest unit of life

  • Homeostasis is essential for maintaining the internal equilibrium of protists, allowing them to adapt to various environmental conditions.

  • Endocytosis is a vital process for protists, enabling them to engulf nutrients and other materials from their surroundings, which is crucial for their survival.

  • Unicellular is an organism consisting of only 1 cell

  • Multicellular an cellular consisting of many cells

  • Autotroph an organism make own food by photosythesis

  • Heterotroph an organism that eats it own food

  • Cell membrane a semi-permeable barrier which encloses the cell ( all cells)

  • Cell wall an impermable barrier in plant and fungi cells providing stabilty and structure

  • Flagella whip like tail

  • Cillia tiny wiggling hairs that provide movement

  • pseudopod is a fake foot

  • spore a dormant cell that in the right conditions devolps into a replica of the parent cells

  • binary fission a parent cell splits into 2 identical daughter cells

  • euckarotic a cell with a neucles and membrane bound orgainism

  • prokariotic a cell lacking a neucles