Protozoan key words

Question 1

Define amoebozoa

Answer 1

Phylum describing the amoeboid protists

Question 2

Define the alveolates

Answer 2

group of parasitic protists

Question 3

Define the basal body

Answer 3

an organelle that forms the base of a flagellum or cilium

Question 4

Define the centrosome

Answer 4

the entire network of microtubules

Question 5

Define the ciliophora

Answer 5

A genus to which the paramecium belong

Question 6

Define cirrus

Answer 6

Cilia that have made a bigger structure

Question 7

Define the cytopharnyx

Answer 7

The defined region in the paramecium that food is ingested

Question 8

Define the cytoproct

Answer 8

cell anus

Question 9

Define the cytostome

Answer 9

the defined region on the paramecium where food is phagocytosed

Question 10

Define the endomembrane system

Answer 10

Different membranes within the cytopolasm of a eukaryotic cell

Question 11

Define eugleozoa

Answer 11

Large group of flagellate excavates

Question 12

Define excavata

Answer 12

Group that are bikonts

Question 13

Define gamaetocyte

Answer 13

A cell that divides to form gametes

Question 14

Define gametogony

Answer 14

A stage in the sexual cycle of sporozoans in which gametes are formed, often by schizogony.

Question 15

Define the hyaline cap

Answer 15

anteriorly situated hyaloplasm

Question 16

Define the kinetodesma

Answer 16

the individual cilium sent out under a cilium to form the pellicle

Question 17

Define the alveolus

Answer 17

bubbles of cell membrane

Question 18

Define lobose pseudopod

Answer 18

The shape of pseudopods in the taxon amoebozoa

Question 19

Define membranellles

Answer 19

structures around the mouth

Question 20

merozoites

Answer 20

A sporozoan trophozoite produced by schizogony