Chapter 28 - The Origin Of Eukaryotes

Question 0

Characteristics of phylum Gymnamoeba?

Answer 0

All unicellular, no flagella, pseudopodia, and no sexual reproduction

Question 1

What are Entamoebas?

Answer 1

Parasites of vertebrates and some invertebrates

Question 2

Common name for Phylum Mycetoxzoans?

Answer 2

Plasmodial slime molds.

Question 3

Characteristics of Phylum Mycetozoans?

Answer 3

Cellular slime molds, phagocytosis, decomposers, flagellated cells, and plasmodial slime molds, both coenocytic and diploid.

Question 4

What is the included in the supergroup Unikonts?

Answer 4

Animals, fungi, and some protists.

Question 5

What is the common name for phylum chlorophyta?

Answer 5

Green algae

Question 6

Characteristics of Phylum Chlorophyta?

Answer 6

Cellulose cell walls, mostly in freshwater, and can be unicellular, colonies, or multicellular.

Question 7

Characteristics of phylum Charophyta?

Answer 7

Multicellular sex organs

Question 8

What is the common name for phylum Rhodophyta?

Answer 8

Red algae.

Question 9

Characteristics of Phylum Rhodophyta?

Answer 9

Common in warm waters, chlorophyll a and d, includes phycobilins like phycocynin and phycoerythrin, cell walls are made of cellulose and carrageenan, they have no flagellated cells.

Question 10

What does the supergroup Archaeplastids contain?

Answer 10

Red algae, green algae, and land plants.

Question 11

Characteristics of Radiozoans?

Answer 11

Shell made of silica and mostly marine planktons.

Question 12

Characteristics of Formanifera?

Answer 12

Has a porous, multichambered cell.

Question 13

Common name for Phylum Oomycota?

Answer 13

Water molds.

Question 14

Characteristics of Phylum Oomycota?

Answer 14

Coenocytic hyphae, biflagellated cells, large and non-motil egg, and cellulose cell walls.

Question 15

Common name for Phylum Phaeophyta?

Answer 15

Brown algae.

Question 16

Characteristics of Phylum phaeophyta?

Answer 16

Largest, most complex.
Mostly marine, most common in temperate to cold waters.
Contains chlorophyll a and c and fucoxanthin.

Question 17

Common name for phylum bacilliariophyta?

Answer 17

Diatoms.

Question 18

Characteristics of phylum Bacilliariophyta?

Answer 18

Cell walls made of silica.

Question 19

Common name for Phylum Cillophora?

Answer 19

Ciliates.

Question 20

Characteristics of Phylum Cillophora?

Answer 20

Has cilia.
Most complex cellular structure that contains a Micronucleus, Macronucleus, feeding mechanisms, and a contractile vacuole.

Question 21

Characteristics of phylum aipcomplexa?

Answer 21

All parasitic on animals.
Has a modified plastid called apicoplast that is not photosynthetic.
Includes sporozoites.
Has complex life cycles.

Question 22

Characteristics of Phylum Dinoflagellata?

Answer 22

Phytoplankton.
Cellulose plates.
Mutualistic with coral.

Question 23

Characteristics of Kinetoplastids?

Answer 23

Single large mitochondrion.

Contains unique region of granular DNA called the kinetoplastid.

Question 24

Characteristics of Euglenoids?

Answer 24

No cell wall, just pellicle.
Flagella emerge from pocket.
Heterotrophic and autotrophic.

Question 25

Characteristics of Euglenozoa?

Answer 25

Mitochondria has discoid cristae.

Main distinguishing feature is a crystal rod in flagella with unknown function.

Question 26

Characteristics of Parabasala?

Answer 26

Has granular Parabasal body near nucleus with unknown function.
Have hydrogenosomes which produce ATP anaerobically as well as H and carbon dioxide.

Question 27

Characteristics of Diplomonads?

Answer 27

Contains nonfunctional mitochondria called mitosomes.

Has two nuclei.