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Life in a Jar

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  1. amoeba
    a single-celled organism that lives in water or soil
  2. animal
    a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  3. bacteria
    single-celled organisms that can cause disease
  4. beetle
    insect having biting mouthparts
  5. copepod
    minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
  6. daphnia
    minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
  7. desmid
    freshwater green algae
  8. detritus
    loose material that is worn away from rocks
  9. diatom
    microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
  10. dinoflagellate
    chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella
  11. duckweed
    any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds
  12. euglenoid
    marine and freshwater green or colorless flagellate organism
  13. fairy shrimp
    small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
  14. Fungi
    the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
  15. larva
    immature form of an animal between the egg and adult stages
  16. moneran
    of or relating to the Monera
  17. nymph
    a minor nature goddess depicted as a beautiful maiden
  18. paramecia
    any member of the genus Paramecium
  19. photosynthesis
    formation of compounds in plants aided by radiant energy
  20. plant
    a living organism without the power to move
  21. producer
    someone who manufactures something
  22. protist
    free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
  23. scavenger
    someone who collects things discarded by others
  24. scud
    run or move very quickly or hastily
  25. Volvox
    type genus of the Volvocaceae
Created on 四月 22, 2010 (updated 六月 1, 2011)

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