Exam 20: The Diversity of Protists

Both Didinium and Paramecium are protists in the group called:

Which protist causes African sleeping sickness?

While exploring a newly exposed shoreline, you find a new protist. It appears to be multicellular, it uses carbon dioxide from the air to carry out photosynthesis, and its chloroplasts closely resemble those of ferns and grasses. This organism is a(n):

________ is a protistan parasite that causes malaria in humans.

Malaria is caused by a protist that is transmitted by the bite of ________.

The organisms in the image have shells made of:

How do amoebas differ from foraminiferans?

The protists make up an inadequately defined and poorly organized group that biologists will likely reorganize. True or False?

Trypanosoma is a protistan parasite that causes ________ in humans.

Secondary endosymbiosis can occur when:

Which of the following is a parasitic protist that is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes?

Euglenids have functional eyespots that can discern all colors of visible light and the movement of predators. True or False?

A shift in weather patterns causes a drought. The normally moist forest becomes dry, with the leaf litter on the forest floor blowing away in high winds. The creek, which normal overflows every time it rains and floods the forest floor, dries up. What would you expect to happen to the slime molds that live in the area?

Which of the following is the parasite apicomplexans that causes malaria if it infects a human host?

Which organism caused the disease that destroyed potato crops and led to the Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s?

The ________ algae are an important source of carrageenan, which is used to thicken paints, cosmetics, and ice cream.

Which protist causes a sexually transmitted disease?

The majority of photosynthesis is carried out by phytoplankton. True or False?

Calcium carbonate shells and thread-like pseudopods are characteristic of:

In rhizarians, the ________ extend through a calcium carbonate or silica shell.