PROTOZOANS Flashcards

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  1. What is the mode of reproduction in most protozoans? (a) Sexual (b) Asexual (c) Both Sexual and Asexual (d) None of the above
  2. Which protozoan is responsible for amoebic dysentery? (a) Typanosoma (b) Plasmodium (c) Giardia (d) Entamoeba
  3. Which protozoan is responsible for Chagas disease?
    (a) Plasmodium (b) Trypanosoma Cruzi (c) Giadia lamblia (d) Entamoeba histolysis
  4. Which protozoan uses flagella for movement?
    (a) Amoeba (b) paramecium (c) Giardia (d) Plasmodium
  5. What is the primary method of feeding in Amoeba?
    (a) Photosynthesis (b) Absorption (c) phagocytosis (d) Fermentation
  6. Which protozoan causes the disease known as beaver fever?
    (a) Trypanosoma (b) Plasmodium (c) Giardia (d) Entamoeba
  7. Which protozoan can form cysts to survive harsh condition? (a) Trypanosoma (b) Plasmodium (c) Giardia (d) all of the above
  8. What is the causative agent of toxoplasmosis?
  9. What type of reproduction is seen in plasmodium within the human host? (a) Binary fission (b) Budding (c) multiple fission(schizogony) (d) Fragmentation
  10. Which protozoan has a symbiotic relationship with termite and digestive cellulose?
    (a) Trypanosoma (b) plasmodium (c) Trichonympha (d) Giardia
A
  1. C. Both Sexual and Asexual
  2. D. Entamoeba
  3. B. Trypanosoma Cruzi
  4. C. Giardia
  5. C. Phagocytosis
  6. C. Giardia
  7. D. All of the above
  8. Toxoplasma gondii
  9. C. Multiple fission(schizogony)
  10. C. Trichonympha
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  1. Leishmania which causes leishmaniasis disease is under what phylum?
  2. Which of the following protozoans
    is a parasite in the human digestive system? (a) Plasmodium (b) Trypanosoma (c) Giardia (d) paramecium
  3. Which of the following protozoan is known for its ability to form protective cysts? (a) Amoeba (b) plasmodium (c) Giardia (d) paramecium
  4. Which protozoan have a life cycle stage called the trophozoite? (a) Amoeba (b) Plasmodium (c) Trypanosoma (d) All of the above
  5. What is the primary host for plasmodium?
  6. Which protozoan is commonly used in biology labs to study cellular processes? (a) Plasmodium (b) paramecium (c) Giardia (d) Entamoeba
  7. Which protozoan is known to cause a sexually transmitted infections in humans? (a) Plasmodium (b) Trypanosoma (c) Trichomonas (d) Giardia
  8. Which protozoan is known for causing severe diarrhea in humans? (a) Plasmodium (b) Trypanosoma (c) Giardia (d) Entamoeba
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  1. Mastigophytha
  2. C. Giardia
  3. C. Giardia
  4. D. All of the above.
  5. Both humans and mosquitoes
  6. Paramecium
  7. Trichomonas
  8. Entamoeba
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Protozoans digest their food where?

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Food vacuole

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Where can protozoans be found?

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Fresh water, marine and moise terrestrial habitats

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Protozoans where first seen by who in what year?

How does protozoan reproduce?

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Leeuwenhoek in 1675

Protozoans reproduce asexually by binary fission
Some specie reproduce by multiple fission
Reproduce sexually by conjugation

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Protozoans can be classified into how many phyla? Name them

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SCMS:
Sarcodina(Amoeba)
Ciliophora(ciliate)
Mastigophora(flagellate)
Sporozoa(apicomplexam)

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The process by which amoeba move by cytoplasmic streaming to produce pseudopods is called?

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Ameboid movement

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  1. Sarcodinians have hard shell called the test and they are made up of?
  2. Sarcodinians serve as an important food in marine habitat? True/False
A
  1. Silica and calcium carbonate
  2. True
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  1. What protozoan cause amoebic dysentery?
  2. What are the largest group of protozoans
A
  1. Entamoeba histolysis
  2. Ciliophora
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What’s the function of marcronucleus
What’s the function of micronucleus

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  1. Marcronucleus controls asexual reproduction by mitosis and metabolism
  2. Controls sexual activity. They reproduce sexually by conjugation and asexually by mitosis
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What’s the mode of reproduction for paramecium?

  1. Which protozoan lives symbiotically with termites and digests cellulose
A
  1. They reproduce asexually by mitosis
    And sexually by conjugation
  2. Trichonympha
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  1. Euglena is an example of what subphylum in phylum mastigophora
  2. Phylum sporozoa are also called
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  1. Phytomastigophora
  2. Apicomplexa
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Malaria can be treated with a drug called_________ which is derived from ____________

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Quinne & cinchona tree

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  1. Porifera’s have free swimming Larval stage called_________
  2. Porifera’s reproduce by _______
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  1. Dipleurula
  2. Fragmentation
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  1. ___________ is the connective tissue of sponge in which are found various amoebiod cells, fibriles and skeletal, element’s
  2. __________ is the occurrence of different forms with specialized functions in an organism
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  1. Mesophyl
  2. Polymorphism
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