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Chapter 28: Protists Flashcards

1
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What is a protist?

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An informal term applied to any eukaryote that is not a plant, animal, or fungus

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What is a Eukaryotic Cell?

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A cell that has a membrane bound nucleus and membrane bound organelles

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Most protists are unicellular, but some are multicellular or colonial. T or F?

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T

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4
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What are the 4 types of eukaryotes?

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  1. plants
  2. animals
  3. fungus
  4. protists
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5
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What protist helps termites breakdown the cellulose of wood?

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Trickonympha (lives in the termite gut)

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What is an example of protists that can photosynthesize?

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Euglena viridis

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7
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What protist causes the red tide?

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dingoflagellate

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8
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What protist causes malaria in humans?

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plasmodium

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9
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What protists causes the African sleeping virus?

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Trypanosome gambiense

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10
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What protist causes amebic dysentery?

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Entamoeba histolytica

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11
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What was the importance of colonial protists?

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living in groups lead to multicellularity

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12
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What is a volvox?

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a colony of protists

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13
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What are the three types of locomotion for protists?

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Flagella, Cilia, and Pseudopodia

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What are flagella? What example protist uses this?

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one or two extension from the cell body that propel the cell, Euglenoid

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What are cilia? What example protist uses this?

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many small hair like structures, Paramecium

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What are pseudopodia? What example protist uses this?

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“fake feet” large extensions of the cell body that can be used for locomotion or feeding, Amoeba

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17
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What are photo-autotrophs?

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obtain energy through photosynthesis via chloroplasts (green coloration)

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What are heterotrophs? What are the two types of protist heterotrophs?

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absorb organic molecules or ingest food particles, phagotrophs and osmotrophs

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What are mixotrophs?

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an organism that is capable of both photosynthesis and heterotrophy

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What is an example of a mixotroph?

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Euglena

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21
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What are phagotrophs?

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engulf food particles

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What are osmotrophs?

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obtain liquids

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23
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A mixotroph can only use heterotrophy if _____ is available?

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light

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24
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What is more efficient in mixotrophs heterotrophy or photosynthesis?

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photosynthesis

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25
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What are the 3 types of a sexual reproduction that protists use?

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binary fission, budding, and schizogony

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What is the basic way that binary fission works?

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the cell grows to half its size and then splits

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27
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In eukaryotes does binary fission use mitosis?

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yes

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28
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What is the basic way that budding works?

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smaller daughter cell breaks off or parent

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29
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What is the basic way that schizogony works?

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several nuclear division followed by cell division

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30
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Frequent genetic recombination generates ________ in populations

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variance

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31
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What is the basis of sexual reproduction in protists?

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meiosis results in haploid cells from diploid cells followed by fertilization

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32
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What is an example of a protist that uses schizogony?

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plasmodia

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33
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Most protists have the capability to reproduce sexually. T or F?

34
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Protists either reproduce sexually or asexually. T or F?

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F, they can produce both ways

35
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What is the common name for brown algae?

36
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The gametophyte is quite small (few centimeters. T or F?

37
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There is now considerable evidence that much of the protist diversity has origins in _______________

A

endosymbiosis

38
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What did red and green algae evolve into after they acquired photosynthetic cyanobacterium?

39
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What is a plastid?

A

one of a family of closely related organelles that includes chloroplasts

40
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What are the three supporting evidences that support the idea that plastids evolved from red and green algae?

A
  1. plastid DNA resembles cyanobacteria DNA
  2. plastids are surrounded by two membranes
  3. transport proteins in membranes are homologous to membranes of cyanobacteria symbionts
41
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What are chlorarchniophytes?

A

marine amen-flagellate that evolved from eukaryote engulfing algae

42
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What was the product of secondary endosymbiosis?

A

chlorarachniophytes

43
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What are is the evidence for the secondary endosymbiosis of protists?

A
  1. DNA sequence indicates they came from green algae

2. plastids are surrounded by 4 membranes in chlorarachniophytes

44
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What is the hypothesis for plastid diversity by endosymbiosis?

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That a heterotrophic eukaryote engulfed a cyanobacteria, and then was engulfed by a larger eukaryote

45
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What is the difference between red and green algae regarding their membranes?

A

red algae have 3 membranes around their engulfed cyanobacterium

green algae have 2 membranes around their engulfed cyanobacteria

46
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Primary endosymbiosis lead to the evolution of what two algae?

A

red algae and green algae

47
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Secondary endosymbiosis of red algae lead to what protists?

A

dinoflagellates (red tide), apicomplexans (malaria), and stramenopiles (brown algae)

48
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Secondary endosymbiosis of green algae lead to what protists?

A

Euglenids and chlorarachniophytes

49
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Protists were once a single kingdom. T or F?

50
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What are the 5 groups of protists?

A
  1. Excavata
  2. Chromaveolata
  3. Rhizaria
  4. Archaeplastids
  5. Unikonta
51
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What is the common characteristic of the excavata?

A

they have an excavated groove on one side of the body

52
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Giardia is an example of what group of protists?

53
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What group of protists originated from secondary endosymbiosis? (some are photosynthetic and others are parasites)

A

chromaveolata

54
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Plasmodium is an example of what group of protists?

A

chromaveolata

55
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What group of protists do most amoebas with threadlike pseudopodia belong to?

56
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What is the sister taxa to land plants?

A

green algae

57
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Are charophytes closely related to land plants?

58
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What group of protists do amoebas with lobe shaped pseudopodia belong to?

59
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What group of protists do non amoeba protists that are closely related to fungi and animals?

60
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Sister taxa for fungi and animals are in what group of protists?

61
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What is the root meaning of Dino and how does it relate to dinoflagellates?

A

Dino means whirling and they relate to dinoflagellates because they have two unequal flagella

62
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Dinoflagellates are photosynthetic. T or F?

63
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Bioluminescence is due to _________?

A

symbiosis with bacteria

64
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Dinoflagellates are toxic when what?

A

when their population explodes (like in red tide)

65
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How many species of dinoflagellates are toxins that harm vertebrates?

66
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Why are dinoflagellates are brownish or red due to presence of ___________

A

carotenoids

67
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plasmodium cause _________ in humans.

68
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complex life cycle with ______ and ________ host

A

mosquito, mammal

69
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Do plasmodium use alternation of generations?

70
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What are the 4 ways that we fight/have fought malaria? What are the negative side effects of each?

A
  1. DDT: chemical used to kill mosquitos, but also thins shells, kills everything, and is detrimental to the environment
  2. Antimalaria Pills: prevent getting the disease, but there are side effects, they are expensive, and no good for daily use
  3. Tonic: was used to kill the plasmodium, but evolved and no longer has an effect
  4. Sterilization of male mosquitos: problem is that reducing population of mosquitos can disrupt the environment
71
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How many people die from malaria every year?

72
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How many people are infected by malaria each year?

A

250,000,000

73
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Are plasmodia photosynthetic?

74
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Do plasmodia have plastids?

75
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Human is the ________ host, and the mosquito is the _________ host

A

determinant, intermediate

76
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choanoflagellates are what group of protists?

77
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choanoflagellates likely share common ancestry with _______

78
Q

sponges have ___________ __________ that exactly match the flagellated structure of these protists

A

flagellated cells

79
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What are flagellate cells called?

A

choanocytes

80
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Homology in _______ _______ with sponges

A

surface receptor

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