Chapter 28 Part A: Protists Flashcards
What gave rise to the great diversity of protists?
Endosymbiosis
Most eukaryotes are ______-celled organisms
Single
Is an informal term used to refer to all eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi
Protists
Why are protists no longer considered a kingdom?
Some protists are more closely related to plants, fungi, or animals than other protists
What are inside of the cells of protist and other eukaryotes?
Nucleus and other membrane-enclosed organelles
__________ isolate functions within ______ cells, making them more _______ than ________ cells.
Organelles, eukaryotic, complex, prokaryotic
What of the eukaryotic cell allows it to have asymmetric shape and to change shape overtime
Well-developed cytoskeleton
What make up much of the diversity of eukaryotes?
Protists
________ exhibit more _______ and _______ diversity than any other group of eukaryotes
Protists; structural, functional
T/F: There are only unicellular protist species
F: most are unicellular BUT some are colonial and multicellular
What type of protists are the most complex?
Unicellular
Why are unicellular protists the most complex?
Each cell must carry out all functions of life
Protists are the most _________ diverse of all eukaryotes
Nutritionally
What are 3 protists that are nutritionally diverse?
Photoautotrophs, heterotrophs, and mixotrophs
What do photoautotrophs contain?
Chloroplasts
Which nutritional protist absorb organic molecules or ingest larger food particles?
Heterotrophs
What do mixotrophs do?
Combine photosynthesis and heterotrophic nutrition
T/F: all protists reproduce asexually
F: SOME protists only reproduce asexually; others have both asexual and sexual phases in their life cycle
What are the three basic types of sexual life cycles represented among protists?
Animal, plant, and fungal
There is an abundant evidence that much of protistan diversity has its origins in
Endosymbiosis
A relationship between 2 species in which one organism lives inside the cell or cells of the other organism (host)
Endosymbiosis
What 2 organelles are derived from bacteria that were engulfed by ancestors of early prokaryotes?
Mitochondria and plastids
What evolved before plastids and arose from an alpha proteobacterium?
Mitochondria
_________ analysis indicates that mitochondria and plastids each evolved _______ in the history of life.
Molecular; once
The _________ host was a relatively complex cell with eukaryotic features, such as a ________
Ancestral; cytoskeleton
The host cell lineage is _______, but ____________, the archaea sister group to the ________, is a candidate ______.
Uncertain; lokiarchaeotes; eukaryotes; taxon
The evolution of ________ gave rise to the eukaryotes.
Mitochondria
________ arose later when a __________ eukaryotes engulfed a __________ cyanobacterium.
Plastids; heterotrophic; photosynthetic
Two lineages of ____________ protists _____ and _____ algae, evolved from the plastid bearing ancestor.
Photosynthetic; red; green