Exam 1 Characterizing and Classifying Eukaryotes

Question 1

What are the major groups of eukaryotes?

Answer 1

Protozoa
Fungi
Algae
Parasitic Helminths
Arthropod Vectors
Animals

Question 2

What two groups of eukaryotes cause some of the biggest microbial deadly infections?

Answer 2

Protozoa

Fungus

Question 3

How do eukaryotes reproduce?

Answer 3

Both sexually and asexually

Question 4

What are the three characteristics of protozoa?

Answer 4

Eukaryotic
Unicellular
Typically lack a cell wall

Question 5

All protozoa produce this motile feeding stage

Answer 5

Trophozoites

Question 6

This is a hardy resting stage for survival in eukaryotes?

Answer 6

Cysts

Question 7

Actively pump water from the cells, protecting them from osmotic lysis

Answer 7

Contractive vacuoles

Question 8

Protozoa that causes vaginal inflammation

Answer 8

Trichomonas

Question 9

Protozoa that causes diarrheal disease, Giardiasis

Answer 9

Giardia

Question 10

Protozoa that causes diarrheal disease, Balantidiasis

Answer 10

Balantidium

Question 11

Protozoa that causes malaria, systemic disease

Answer 11

Plasmodium

Question 12

Protozoa that causes diarrheal disease, Crytosporidiosis

Answer 12

Crytosporidium

Question 13

Protozoa that causes systemic disease, toxoplasmosis

Answer 13

Toxoplasma

Question 14

Protozoa that causes eye or brain infections

Answer 14

Naegleria/Acanthamoeba

Question 15

Protozoa that causes amebic dysentery

Answer 15

Entamoeba

Question 16

Protozoa that causes African Sleeping Sickness or Chagas’ disease

Answer 16

Trypanosoma

Question 17

Protozoa that causes leishmaniasis

Answer 17

Leishmania

Question 18

These protozoa are bioluminescent

Answer 18

Dinoflagellates

Question 19

How do fungi gain their energy and carbon sources?

Answer 19

Chemoheterotrophic

Question 20

Fungi typically have cell walls composed of this

Answer 20

Chitin

Question 21

Nonreproductive body of fungus

Answer 21

Thallus

Question 22

Long, branched tubular filaments of fungus

Answer 22

Hyphae

Question 23

Fungi that produce 2 types of thalli

Answer 23

Dimorphic

Question 24

Tangled mass of hyphae

Answer 24

Mycelium

Question 25

Most fungi reproduce how?

Answer 25

Sexually

Question 26

Series of buds on fungi that remain attached to one another and to parent cell

Answer 26

Pseudohypha

Question 27

Fungi that causes yeast infections

Answer 27

Candida

Question 28

Fungi that result in opportunistic infections

Answer 28

Microsporidia

Question 29

Fungi that can create a lung infection, think marijuana

Answer 29

Aspergillus

Question 30

Fungi that causes bread mold

Answer 30

Rhizopus

Question 31

Fungi that causes meningitis

Answer 31

Cryptococcus

Question 32

Fungi related to penicillin

Answer 32

Penicillium

Question 33

Fungi for baking and brewing

Answer 33

Saccaromyces

Question 34

Fungi which makes morels or truffles

Answer 34

Morchella/Tuber

Question 35

These vectors only carry the pathogen

Answer 35

Mechanical vectors

Question 36

These vectors serve as host for pathogen

Answer 36

Biological vectors

Question 37

Disease vectors belong to what 2 classes of arthropod?

Answer 37

Arachnids

Insects

Question 38

Name two arachnids

Answer 38

Ticks and mites

Question 39

How many pairs of legs do insects have?

Answer 39

Three pairs

Question 40

What is the most important vector?

Answer 40

Mosquito