Quiz 3 -T1 Flashcards
A ciliated protozoan
Paramecium
Can, in large numbers, sometimes cause toxic “red-tides”
Dinoflagellets
Store energy as oil
Diatoms
Both an autotroph and heterotroph
Euglena
Closest protozoan relative of plants
Green Algae
Malaria is a complicated disease (T/F)
True
Brown algae are heterotrophs (T/F)
False
The tsetse fly transmits African trypanosomiasis (T/F)
True
Protozoa are prokaryotes (T/F)
False
The famous chalk cliffs of Dover, England are really just a big pile of protozoa (T/F)
True
Endosymbiosis theory states that chloroplasts, mitochondria, and the nucleolus were once free-living prokaryotes that began to live symbiotically with another larger organism (T/F)
False
The protozoan that causes Irish Potato Famine led to a wave of Irish immigrants to the U.S.A in the 1800s (T/F)
True