Protist Flashcards

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What structure help euglena sense and respond to their environment

A

Eyespots

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What structures do volvox and euglena use for movement?

A

flagella

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What structure helps protist get rid of waste?

A

Contractile vacuole

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How does paramecium take in energy?

A

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4
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Which protist can reproduce sexually

A

Volvox, amoeba

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Name a protist that is mixotroph?

A

Euglena

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What type of cell has a true nucleus

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Volvox, euglena, amoeba

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Which protist lives in colony?

A

Volvox

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How does Paramecia move around?

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Cilia move like rowing oars

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What is the function of the oral groove in the Paramecia?

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It directs food to the mouth

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10
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What is the projection called that an amoeba use to move

A

Pseudopods

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What is the function of contractile vacuole in Protists?

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Prevents cells from bursting by pumping all of the excess water out of the cell

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12
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What two Protists are heterotrophic?

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Paramecium amoeba

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What is the structure called that allows certain protist to convert sunlight to energy?

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Chloroplasts

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14
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Name Protists that live in water

A

Euglena
Volvox
Amoeba

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15
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Know the structures of amoeba and euglena

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Contractile
Vacuole 
Cell membrane
Nucleus
Cytoplasm