Unit 2 · Classification of Living BeingsKingdoms Monera, Protista and Fungi
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- Prokaryotic: having a cell with no definite nucleus.
- Eukaryotic: having a cell with a definite nucleus.
- Autotrophic: able to prepare its own food.
- Parasite: an organism that takes its food from the body of another organism.
- Saprotrophic: taking food from rotten and decayed matter.
- Symbiotic: two organisms living a shared, interdependent life in which both gain.
- Peptidoglycan: the substance that makes the cell wall of eubacteria.
- Pseudopodia: the temporary structures an amoeba pushes out to move and to catch food.
- Host cell: the cell from which a parasite sucks its food.
- Thalloid: a body not differentiated into root, leaf and stem.
- Mycelium: the web of thread like structures that makes the body of a fungus.
- Fermentation: the process in which yeast changes sugar into alcohol and gas, used in making alcohol and bakery products.
- Lichen: the interdependent shared life of an alga and a fungus.