Protists

Question 1

Any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, plant, or fungus. they do not form a natural group, or clade, but an artificial grouping of several independent clades that evolved from the last eukaryotic common ancestor.

Answer 1

Protists

Question 2

The engulfment of one cell within
another such that the engulfed
cell survives, and both cells
benefit

Answer 2

endosymbiosis

Question 2

This person developed endosymbiotic theory

Answer 2

Lynn Margulis, American Biologist 1960s

Question 3

asymmetrical, single-celled
organisms with a feeding
groove “excavated” from
one side

Answer 3

Excavata

Question 4

What group contains the subgroups: Diplomonads, Parabasalids and euglenozoans?

Answer 4

Excavata

Question 5

Examples from this group are: Giardia lamblia, Trypanosoma brucei

Answer 5

Excavata

Question 6

This means that they share a common ancestor

Answer 6

Monophyletic

Question 7

derived from a common
ancestor that engulfed a
photosynthetic red algal cell,
which itself had already
evolved chloroplasts from an
endosymbiotic relationship
with a photosynthetic
prokaryote

Answer 7

Chromalveolata

Question 8

Examples from this group are: dinoflagellates, Plasmodium, Paramecium, diatoms, brown algae, golden algae

Answer 8

Chromoalveolata

Question 9

What group contains the subgroups: alveolates and stramenopiles?

Answer 9

Chromoalveolata

Question 10

It includes many of
the amoebas, most of
which have threadlike
or needle-like
pseudopodia

Answer 10

Rhizaria

Question 11

It is a temporary arm-like projection of a eukaryotic cell membrane that is emerged in the direction of movement.

Answer 11

pseudopodia

Question 12

Which group includes the subgroups: pseudopods, forams, and radiolarians?

Answer 12

Rhizaria

Question 13

Examples from this group are: amoebas, Ammonia tepida

Answer 13

Rhizaria

Question 14

It was from a common
ancestor of these
protists that the land
plants evolved

Answer 14

Archaeplastida

Question 15

What group contains the subgroups: red algae and green algae?

Answer 15

Archaeplastida

Question 16

Examples from this group are: Volvox aureus, Caulerpa taxifolia

Answer 16

Archaeplastida

Question 17

They characteristically
exhibit pseudopodia
that extend like tubes
or flat lobes

Answer 17

Amoebozoa

Question 18

Which group contains the subgroups: slime molds, other unicellular
amoeba-like
organisms that are
free-living or
parasites?

Answer 18

Amoebozoa

Question 19

include the animal-like
choanoflagellates,
which are believed to
resemble the common
ancestor of sponges
and, in fact, all animals

Answer 19

Opisthokonta

Question 20

They are believed to resemble the common ancestor of sponges, and all animals.

Answer 20

Choanoflagellates

Question 21

An organism that can create their own food

Answer 21

Photosynthetic

Question 22

An organism that gains energy from other organisms

Answer 22

Heterotrophic

Question 23

Organelle which contains chlorophyll

Answer 23

Chloroplast

Question 24

This is what makes plants or leaves green

Answer 24

Chlorophyll

Question 25

Parasites that infect other organisms

Answer 25

Parasitic