Kingdom Protista 3

Question 1

Somatic Phase

Answer 1

Diploid and Multinucleate Plasmodium

Question 2

Habitat of Slime Moulds

Answer 2

Damp places with dead and decaying organisms

Question 3

Mode of Perennation

Answer 3

Plasmotomy

Sclerotia

Question 4

Sclerotia

Answer 4

Plasmodium becomes dormant and hardened mass to protect against heat and dryness

Question 5

Plasmodium in Unfavourable Conditions

Answer 5

It differentiates into fruiting bodies called Sporangium

Question 6

Sporangium forms when

Answer 6

Food on substratum is Exhausted

Question 7

Covering of Sporangium

Answer 7

Peridium (CaCO3)

Question 8

Sporulation

Answer 8

Refer notes

Question 9

Meiosis

Answer 9

Occur in young and immature spores (2n)

4 haploid nuclei produced
3 degenerate and
1 remains functional

Question 10

Spore Liberation occurs because of

Answer 10

Contraction of Peridiumand Twisting movement of Capillitium

Question 11

Spores dispersed by Air Currents is Called

Answer 11

Anemochory

Question 12

Spore Germination

Answer 12

Occur by absorbing moisturefrom moist substratum

Question 13

Zygote Formation is also called

Answer 13

Isogamy Fertilization

Question 14

Perform ____ Cycling

Answer 14

Biogeochemical

Question 15

Plant Trait

Answer 15

Spores have a cellulosic cell wall

Question 16

Fungal Trait

Answer 16

Produce Spores and act as Decomposers

Question 17

Protoplasmic Studies are made on them because of

Answer 17

Myxamoebae and Plasmodia

Question 18

Major Mode of Reproduction

Answer 18

Sexual

Question 19

Vegetative mode of Reproduction

Answer 19

Plasmotomy

Question 20

Flagella are visible in which phase

Answer 20

When they become Myxamoebae or Biflagellated Swarm Cells

Question 21

Which Kinesis does it go through ?

Answer 21

Karyokinesis only