Chapter 17

Question 0

Type of Protista found in the waters of a red tide

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Dinoflagellates

Question 1

This characteristic is used to group animal like protist

Answer 1

Method of movement

Question 2

Type of protist that would be found growing on dead decaying matter

Answer 2

A slime mold

Question 3

The structure that allows euglena to move

Answer 3

Flagella

Question 4

A plantlike protist that has animal like characteristics

Answer 4

Euglena

Question 5

Disease caused by trypanosoma

Answer 5

African sleeping sickness

Question 6

What is the disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying a plasmodium

Answer 6

Malaria

Question 7

What is the protozoan who lives in the gut of termites and helps them to digest cellulose

Answer 7

Trichonympha

Question 8

Parts of the human body most affected by malaria

Answer 8

The red blood cells and liver

Question 9

The Protists that contain a glass like cell wall

Answer 9

Diatoms

Question 10

Large multicellular algae

Answer 10

Seaweed

Question 11

Red algae

Answer 11

Found in deep ocean pigments are most effective at capturing blue and green light

Question 12

Volvox

Answer 12

Green algae that lives in colonies

Question 13

The role that a fungus like protist would fill in an ecosystem

Answer 13

Decomposer

Question 14

The kind of fungus like protist that can grow on dead fish and dead plants

Answer 14

Water mold or downy mildew

Question 15

A structure in a slime mold that contains many nuclei

Answer 15

Plasmodium

Question 16

The type of protist that destroyed the Irish crop in the 1800s

Answer 16

Downy mildew or potato blight

Question 17

The structure that allows a paramecium to move

Answer 17

Cilia

Question 18

Structure that allows amoeba to move

Answer 18

Pseudopodia

Question 19

The structure that allows slime molds to move

Answer 19

Pseudopodia

Question 20

An animal like protist that has no means of locomotion

Answer 20

Plasmodium, apicomplexans

Question 21

Small photosynthetic organisms that can be found on the surface of the ocean

Answer 21

Phytoplankton

Question 22

A protozoan that is often found in contaminated drinking water

Answer 22

Giardia

Question 23

A process that may have given rise to the first organelles in cells

Answer 23

Endosymbiosis

Question 24

The idea that host prokaryotic cells engulfed smaller prokaryotic cells

Answer 24

Endosymbiosis

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Protozoans

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Animal like Protists that ingest food

Question 26

Algae

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Plant like Protists, autotrophs, they make their own food through photosynthesis

Question 27

Zoo flagellates

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Have multiple flagella

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Pseudopodia

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Temporary extensions in the cytoplasm to create fake “legs”

Question 29

Forams

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Also have have Pseudopodia, but in porous shells made of organic material and hard calcium carbonate

Question 30

Ciliates

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A diverse group of protozoans named for their use of short hairlike projections

Question 31

Plasmodia slime mold

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Decomposers common anywhere there is moist, decaying organic matter, appear as brightly colored growths

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Plasmodium

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A single mass of cytoplasm undivided by membranes or cell walls and containing many nuclei

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Sporangia

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When food and water are scarce the organism stops growing and develops reproductive structures called fruiting bodies or sporangia

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Cellular slime molds

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Decomposers that that live mainly on decaying matter, have both unicellular and multicellular stages in their lifestyle

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Dinoflagellates

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Are unicellular, mostly photosynthetic Protists with a cell wall made of cellulose and two flagella

Question 36

Euglenoids

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A group of single called photosynthetic Protists that poses one or two flagella and lack cell walls

Question 37

Plankton

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Are the communities of mostly microscopic organisms that drift near the surface of ponds lakes and oceans

Question 38

Phytoplankton

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Photosynthetic organisms in plankton such as dinoflagellates

Question 39

Zooplankton

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Those plankton that are protozoans or tiny animals are called zooplankton

Question 40

Brown algae

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The biggest and most complex seaweeds, dwell on rocky shores and are able to withstand powerful tidal currents

Question 41

Green algae

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A group of photosynthetic Protists that include unicellular, colonial, and multicellular