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Protista, Fungi, Lichens and Viruses
Biology · Chapter 3 · Unit 1: Diversity of Living Organisms
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- Kingdom Protista: chrysophytes, dinoflagellates, euglenoids, slime moulds and protozoans (rhizopods, flagellates, ciliates, sporozoans) with locomotion and examples
- Kingdom Fungi: general characteristics; spores and sexual reproduction (isogamy, anisogamy, oogamy, plasmogamy, karyogamy, dikaryophase)
- Classes of fungi: Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, Deuteromycetes; role in medicine, bakery and decomposition; lichens and mycorrhiza
- Viruses: link between living and non-living; structure of TMV and bacteriophage; contributions of Ivanowsky, Beijerinck and Stanley; viroids and prions (BSE, CJD)